Emmanuel Macron wins French presidential election race

May 9, 2017

On Sunday, ' candidate Emmanuel Macron won the second round of the 2017 French Presidential election, winning about 66.1 percent of the votes, defeating ''s with the final result declared yesterday. Winning the race with a significant vote difference, Marcon tweeted, With this victory, winning almost twice as many votes as Le Pen, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron became the youngest President-elect of the Republic of France. In the first round of the election, held on April 23, no candidate won the absolute majority. The abstention rate increased from 22.23% to 25.44% in the second round, AFP reported, the first such second-round increase since 1969. He won the presidential race in the continuing state of emergency which was announced after the November 2015 Paris attack.

Known for her anti-European and anti-globalisation programme, far-right leader Le Pen managed to win about twice as many votes as her father and founder of the Front national party who lost to Jacques Chirac in 2002. Front national won the highest number of votes in their history.

In his speech in front of the glass pyramid near the, Macron said, He also added,  Macron said he would serve as per the motto of France —. Acknowledging the "immense" awaiting task, he said, "I will do everything I can in the coming five years to make sure you never have a reason to vote for extremism again".

, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. German chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Macron via a telephone call.

French parliamentary elections are to be held in June, and Emmanuel Macron, who describes himself as "neither left nor right" does not have a party in the parliament. En Marche! was formed last year. Marine Le Pen tweeted that Front national.

Current president, François Hollande announced he would not run for re-election in December.