Emmanuel Macron is set to become the youngest-ever president of the current Republic, according to initial results. Projections showed the pro-EU candidate resoundingly defeating his nationalist rival Marine Le Pen.
Emmanuel Macron achieved a clear victory over far-right National Front (FN) candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential election in France, according to initial results. The 39-year-old leader of the independent En Marche! (On the move!) movement has proven that the French preferred a relative newcomer to the anti-immigrant Le Pen, who has spent years moving her party away from the extreme right fringes in an effort to make it more palatable o French voters.
Early projections showed Macron had beaten Le Pen by a margin of some 65 percent to around 34.5 percent.
The former economy minister ran on a pro-EU platform that has embraced regulated immigration and social-liberal policies that he hoped would unite the left and right of the political spectrum. Although he garnered 24 percent of the vote to top the first round of voting on April 24, the last week of the campaign was marred by an insult-laden television debate with Le Pen and a huge leak of documents from his campaign last Friday. En Marche! has said that fake documents were mixed in with real data as part of an effort to "create confusion" ahead of Sunday's polls.
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