French President Emmanuel Macron has won reelection.<\/p>\n
He defeated fierce archrival Marine Le Pen<\/p>\n
The result of the run off polls was announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mr Macron scored 58.2 per cent of the votes while Ms Le Pen got 41.8 per cent<\/p>\n
Despite the historic low voter turn out at 28%, Mr Macron\u2019s \u201cclear victory\u201d was an important win against the \u201cfar right\u201d, says French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a clear victory, the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic that a president has been re-elected when he also has a majority in parliament,\u201d Mr Beaune said. \u201cIt\u2019s important, it\u2019s very important, because this was a political combat, a political combat against the far right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
French President Emmanuel Macron has won reelection. He defeated fierce archrival Marine Le Pen The result of the run off polls was announced on Sunday. Mr Macron scored 58.2 per cent of the votes while Ms Le Pen got 41.8 per cent Despite the historic low voter turn out at 28%, Mr Macron\u2019s \u201cclear victory\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":182528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2587,35033,10341,25744],"class_list":["post-182525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-france","tag-le-pen","tag-macron","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"\n