FN leader, Marine Le Pen, gained the remaining 10.44% of votes - 4% more than during the first round two weeks ago. To have a man who has never held an elected office before, win on a national scale, with a one-year-old party certainly sets a new record for France. Her research interests include far right parties, European politics and ideas of "Europe".
Although the president nominates the prime minister, Macron must find someone who reflects the political majority in that assembly, to avoid a government-toppling motion of censure.
The euro rallied to a six-month high against the dollar in Asian trade and other financial markets are expected to react positively.
Minutes after his victory was called, Ms Le Pen phoned her opponent to congratulate him on his victory, telling a gathering of her supporters that the election result confirmed her National Front party and its far-right allies as France's opposition.
Earlier Merkel said she was "very happy" that Emmanuel Macron has won the presidential election in France.
The parliamentary vote could see the newly elected Macron, who has no party of lawmakers behind him, deprived of support for his legislative agenda giving way to a multi-year period of political deadlock. She married Macron the next year, 14 years after the drama that they played together.
"Macron's win is a sign that France is on the road to implement more structural reforms that are needed", he told Reuters.
Macron takes charge of a nation that, when Britain leaves the European Union in 2019, will become the EU's only member with nuclear weapons and a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
He repeated several times that the task facing him and the country was enormous.
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That created a two-on-one with Burakovsky and Oshie, and Burakovsky kept it for himself, wedging the puck between Fleury. But up until Monday night, when they needed it most desperately, they had not put all of that together for 60 minutes.
Beijing and Paris maintained good relations during the five-year term of President Francois Hollande, after his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, angered China by meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Le Pen credited herself with upsetting the French political landscape, creating a divide "between patriots and globalists".
Pollsters' projections give Macron a win of around 65 per cent to nationalist, anti-EU rival Marine Le Pen's 35 per cent - a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had suggested.
The election turnout was France's lowest since 1969 at 74 per cent. About 12.5 per cent of the 47 million votes cast were either blank or spoiled, official Interior Ministry figures show, while 24.7 per cent of the voters accounted for abstained.
Here's how she responded to her loss, and what's likely to be coming up next for Le Pen.
Ogier and her husband Jean-Philippe (37), standing outside the embassy with daughters Ciara and Angeline, were angry that Le Pen had accused the French living overseas of running away from paying taxes in France.
Macron has vowed to strengthen the European Union and euro and to reform France's economy, which hasn't grown quickly enough in recent years to bring unemployment decisively below 10 per cent.
"It's really a question now of what's going to happen next with respect to the U.S. Federal Reserve with one rate rise priced in between now and the end of the year, and what's the probability that the European Central Bank will look to taper monetary policy before the end of the year", Hewson said.
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