NewsAlert: French prime minister says Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election
PARIS – France’s prime minister says that centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election.
Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement minutes after the last polls closed that the vote “testifies to the lucidity of the voters who rejected the deadly project of the extreme right.” He said the vote shows an embrace of the European Union.
French polling agencies have projected that Macron has defeated Marine Le Pen 65 per cent to 35 per cent, with a record number of blank and spoiled ballots.
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