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RSS FeedsMacron and Le Pen projected to contest French election run-off
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 april 2017 21:24:52

 
Macron and Le Pen projected to contest French election run-off
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


PARIS—Pollsters projected that pro-Europe centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to France’s presidential runoff on May 7 — igniting wild cheering and singing at their respective headquarters.The selection of Le Pen and Macron would present voters with the starkest possible choice between two diametrically opposed visions of the European Union’s future and France’s place in it.Read more:French presidential hopefuls hone branding with baggy sweaters, bespoke suitsMontrealers line up to cast votes in French presidential electionFrench election is new front in the fight against far-right populism: EditorialWith Le Pen wanting France to leave the EU, and Macron wanting even closer co-operation between the bloc’s 28 member states, the projected outcome Sunday means the presidential runoff would have undertones of a referendum on France’s EU membership.It also would represent a seismic shift in the French political landscape, with neither of the candidates from the mainstream left Socialists or the right-wing Republicans party — which have governed postwar France — making the runoff.Pollsters projected that conservative former prime minister François Fillon was trailing the two leading candidates and that Socialist Benoit Hamon was far behind. Hamon quickly conceded defeat but declared “the left is not dead” and urged supporters to back Macron.Voting took place amid heightened security in the first election under France’s state of emergency, which has been in place since gun-and-bomb attacks in Paris in 2015.Macron supporters went wild at the announce of the polling agency projections, cheering, singing “La Marseillaise” anthem, waving French tricolour and European flags and shouting “Macron, president!”.Le Pen supporters were equally enthusiastic.“We will win!” Le Pen supporters chanted in her electi ...


 
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