The vote was a record for the National Front and, she said, a mandate for it to become a new “patriotic and Republican alliance”
that would be “the primary opposition force against the new president.”
She added that the new political divide would be between “patriots and globalists” and
that her party would transform into a new political force reflecting all those who voted for her.
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France’s presidential election on Sunday, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far-right message
and backed his call for centrist change, according to partial returns.
Le Pen’s party, the far-right National Front, giving it new legitimacy even as the results showed
that the party remains anathema to much of the French electorate for its history of anti-Semitism, racism and Nazi nostalgia.
His message — that his new movement is neither right nor left,
but represents a third way, with elements of both — seemed to have appealed to numerous urban voters as well as to many young voters.
The far-right French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, thanked her supporters
and congratulated her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, after pollsters projected that he would be the next president.
Macron Decisively Defeats Le Pen in French Presidential Race -
By ALISSA J. RUBINMAY 7, 2017
France’s president-elect spoke at the Louvre after defeating the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen.
