Emmanuel Macron was re-elected on Sunday as President of the Republic with around 58% of the vote against Marine Le Pen (around 42%)
Supporters of the National Rally candidate were gathered this Sunday evening west of Paris.
The activists welcomed the defeat of their candidate between disillusion and hopes for the legislative elections.
It is almost 8 p.m., the champagne is chilled.
The militants of the National Rally are gathered at the bucolic pavilion of Armenonville, in the Bois de Boulogne, west of Paris for election night.
“It's going to be tight, but I think Marine Le Pen can win, hopes Denise.
I don't want to stuff myself with Macron for another five years, it would be a nightmare, ”breathes the retiree, a glass in her hand.
White wine and petit fours are popular.
It's discussed in small groups, but without euphoria, as if the result had already been heard.
More than a minute, the tension goes up a notch.
Faces tense and stare at television screens.
Cold shower: the face of Emmanuel Macron appears.
“We have progressed, it is not a defeat”
The outgoing President of the Republic is re-elected with more than 57% of the votes.
Some boos are heard, but timidly, for the form and the many cameras.
This Sunday evening, even in defeat, the heart is only half there.
"I'm not particularly disappointed.
I especially feel sorry for the people I met in the field during the campaign, retirees, students, those who are going to have purchasing power difficulties”, breathes Marie Tassiers.
“Our voices are real unlike those of Macron, which for many is not a choice of conviction.
I am proud of Marine, she is a courageous woman, ”adds the 22-year-old activist from Nice.
Marine Le Pen (42.40) beaten by Emmanuel Macron (57.60) according to estimates.
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“Macron hid behind the Covid, then the war in Ukraine, which he dramatized.
It skewed the political debate a bit.
But we are over 42%, we have never been so high, that's good.
We have progressed compared to 2017 [33.90% in the second round] in this difficult context.
It is therefore not a defeat, we had a good campaign, we refocused on a coherent program, advances Philippe.
The future is ahead of us,” he adds.
With or without Marine Le Pen?
"That, you have to ask him", smiles the RN manager in Val-d'oise
“There was a cabal against Marine Le Pen”
The candidate of the National Rally arrives just on the small platform.
Its supporters launch “Marine!
Marine !
Marine !
while waving tricolor flags.
The contender for the Elysée looks around the room, visibly tired and moved.
"Tonight's result is a victory in itself," she said.
Despite this third defeat in a presidential election, the 53-year-old MP for Pas-de-Calais reassures her people.
She says she is continuing her "commitment to France and the French" and is launching "from this evening the great electoral battle for the legislative elections", scheduled for next June.
The crowd exults and sings a Marseillaise a capela.
Marine Le Pen slips away quickly.
In the room, we are looking for explanations, accusing Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, or journalists.
“All the media have joined together to demolish it, there has been a campaign of denigration of the media-political world, artists and sportsmen…”, annoys Annika Bruna, MEP RN.
“On the evening of the first round, there is a cabal of demonization, a surge of hatred against Marine Le Pen abounds Rémi.
Macron mistreated us, multiplying the insults, Darmanin said that the poor would die if we were elected.
The journalists disguised his program by saying that we wanted to get out of Europe, all that is not serious, ”plagues the secondary school teacher.
Like him, some are talking about this evening the need to "bring together all patriots to win the legislative elections".
Others prefer to celebrate with champagne the historic score of the National Rally in a presidential election.
But the “Marine Presidente” cuvée, uncorked this Sunday evening, has never been so badly named.
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