Emmanuel Macron is re-elected President of France

2022-04-24 20:11:08Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Emmanuel Macron is re-elected President of France
Emmanuel Macron

Emanuel Macron has been re-elected President of France for a second term.

According to Exit Polls, Macron is projected to get 58.2 percent of the vote, while Le Pen 41.8 percent. This projection was realized by the French media where a combination between real results and "exit polls" is used and is considered very accurate in the race between the two voters.

Meanwhile, celebrations and cheers in support of Emmanuel Macron under the Eiffel Tower immediately began.

Turnout in the second round of the presidential election was 71.8 percent of voters.

Macron, 44, is expected to become the first French president to be re-elected in 20 years.

Macroni, 44, benefited in the face of the Ukraine war and a desire for stability. However, many French people are unhappy with Macron's first term and think his political style is arrogant.

Macron's victory in the election is expected to be a great relief for Germany and Europe, even if the charismatic liberal is far from being the ideal partner everywhere. His opponent wanted to distance himself from the close cooperation with Germany that has been going on for decades. Eurosceptic nationalist Le Pen also aimed to reduce the European Union's influence in France. She could have stopped, for personal interests, many projects in Brussels.

Finally, its proximity to Vladimir Putin, the head of the Kremlin, raised fears that the West's strong pro-Ukrainian front could disintegrate under Le Pen.

As early as 2017, the then young political star, Macroni, and right-wing Le Pen clashed in the second round of the presidential election. At the time Le Pen received only a third of the vote.

Macroni, who relied on economic progress during the election campaign, entered Parliament in 2017 with his La République en Marche movement on the Elysee.

A rather left-wing candidate at the time, he has now embraced liberal-conservative themes. Prior to becoming President, Macroni from northern France worked as an investment banker, as an adviser to Socialist President François Hollande, and as Minister of Economy from 2014 to 2016.

 


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