French president-elect Emmanuel Macron waved to the crowd as he delivered his speech at the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday.
President Rodrigo Duterte is eager to work with his newly elected French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Malacañang said Monday.
Like Macron, Le Pen will now have to work to try to convert her presidential result into parliamentary seats, in a two-round system that has in the past encouraged voters to vote tactically to keep her out.
The election of a French president who championed European unity could also strengthen the EU's hand in its complex divorce proceedings with Britain. The AP reported further, "I know the anger, the anxiety, the doubts that a large number of you also expressed. It is my responsibility to hear them". Le Pen's National Front won 35 per cent of the vote, almost double what her father Jean-Marie secured in 2002, a result which hit the nation like an natural disaster at the time, triggering a broad "Republican front" to block him. As a outcome, center-right President Jacques Chirac won a second term in a landslide with Jean-Marie Le Pen receiving less than 18 percent of the vote. "The clear victory of Emmanuel Macron provides reassurance, but Europe must not be under any illusions". President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. Until now, modern France had been governed either by the Socialists or the conservatives.
His startup political movement - optimistically named "En Marche!"
Unpopular Hollande was the first to bow to the rebellious mood in December as he became the first sitting president not to seek re-election in the French fifth republic, founded in 1958.
Many of those will have been supporters of the far-left maverick Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose high-spending, anti-EU, anti-globalisation platform had many similarities with Le Pen's.
During the campaign, Le Pen called for France's exit from the European Union.
Macron: France's youngest president faces divided nation
But she congratulated Mr Macron on beating Marine Le Pen, an outspoken opponent of the European Union, in the weekend's election . The law was passed without a vote in the parliament, which Macron defended from criticism of being anti-democratic.
French Presidential elections results 2017 are out.
Germany's foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, laced his welcome for Macron with a warning to the French, saying: "If he fails, in five years Mrs Le Pen will be president and the European project will go to the dogs".
In this election the sense of shock and anti-Le Pen front proved far weaker.
As the day began, French voters faced a stark choice.
He added: "He wants France to stay in the European Union and continue its open borders policy that has brought thousands of Muslim immigrants to France". Hollande himself decided not to run again.
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. Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted. The race here also focused on the deeper question of what it means to be French.
France has been in a state of emergency since then and 50,000 security forces safeguarded yesterday's vote.
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