French press review
Headlines: Emmanuel Macron re-elected for a second term
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Emmanuel Macron on the Champ-de-Mars after his victory in the second round of the presidential election.
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By: Johanne Burgell
2 mins
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“
Victory without glory.
This is how
Liberation
summarizes the verdict of the polls last night.
With more than 58% of the votes, the outgoing president was reappointed.
“After a non-campaign in the first round, he benefited from the second of the republican front which again blocked the way to Marine Le Pen.
After being the youngest to enter the Élysée, he set a new record: under the Fifth Republic, an outgoing president had never been re-elected by universal suffrage outside of the period of cohabitation.
»
The Head of State can breathe but certainly not triumph.
"I am aware that this vote obliges me for the years to come,"
he conceded in a lackluster statement, judge
Liberation.
Indeed, the newspaper continues, Emmanuel Macron can thank left-wing voters.
These, who had massively focused on the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on April 10, held the key to the second round.
Historic score for the far right
"Marine Le Pen, never so high, always further",
according to
La Croix
.
With more than 41% of the vote, Marine Le Pen spoke last night of a resounding victory.
And yet,
“this new defeat of Marine Le Pen marks the limits of the strategy of demonization deployed since 2011.
For
La Croix, her score never seen, paradoxically, now raises the question of her political survival.
Refusing throughout the campaign to comment on her future in the event of defeat, the former lawyer confirmed on Sunday that she did not intend to hang up.
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As for the militants of the National Rally, we expected it, says
Le Figaro
...
"The 600 militants invited yesterday to Marine Le Pen's election evening are disappointed but combative... Because tomorrow they will be in battle order for the legislative... I am convinced that Emmanuel Macron will not have the majority.
He will have to deal with an army of deputies from the RN and rebellious France”
, prediction of a young 21-year-old activist, in the columns of
Figaro.
The look towards the legislative
In the ranks of the majority, there is fear of an opposition La France insoumise in the Assembly.
Supporters of Emmanuel Macron, re-elected yesterday, are already wondering about the outcome of the legislative elections.
"A fear is spreading in their ranks,
writes Le Figaro:
that the deputies elected in June do not reflect the political landscape of April... For one of the ministers, if Jean-Luc Mélenchon succeeds in uniting the left around him, he becomes our number one opponent”.
The Parisian
for his part assures that Emmanuel Macron is already under pressure.... The 3rd man, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, dreams of being Prime Minister of cohabitation
.
“His teams began to negotiate with environmentalists, the Communist Party
and even socialists.
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