Presidential results 2022 in pictures: With Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen

Emmanuel Macron begins a second five-year term on Monday with a victory against the far right with a historic score, but will have to deal with a fractured France and opponents already on a war footing seven weeks before the legislative elections.

With 58.56% of the vote against the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron certainly signed a feat on Sunday by being the first outgoing president to be re-elected outside of cohabitation since the introduction of direct universal suffrage. in 1962. However, he lost two million votes between the second round of 2017 and that of 2022 (18.7 million on Sunday, against 20.7 million five years ago, according to the Ministry of the Interior).

For its part, the RN, which has gained nearly eight points in five years, also makes a historic score (41.44%).

Abstention (28%) has,

she reached a record since the presidential election of 1969 (31%).

Back, in pictures, on the election night in both camps.

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• Around 7:30 p.m., the first survey estimates fall into the SMS and mailboxes of journalists.

• Emmanuel Macron has decided to gather his supporters on the Champ-de-Mars, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

• Supporters of Marine Le Pen, they are gathered at the pavilion of Armenonville, in the Bois de Boulogne, where the VIPs decompress with great reinforcements of small ovens.

• 8 p.m., the crowd explodes with joy on the Champ-de-Mars.

• Some take their neighbor in their arms, others frantically wave tricolor flags.

• The DJ electrifies the crowd with Daft Punk's "One more time".

• The first public appearance of Marine Le Pen after the results will be on the news channels, which had cleverly posted cameras aimed at the balcony.

• The images of a low-ceilinged room in the Pavillon d'Armenonville, in the Bois de Boulogne, contrast with the splendor of the Champ-de-Mars.

• The faces are sad but tears are rare among supporters of Marine Le Pen. 

• At the Champ-de-Mars, we try to immortalize this moment.

• Only a few minutes later, Marine Le Pen goes up to the stage to deliver her speech.

  First bitter: "A great wind of freedom could have blown over the country", she regrets, denouncing "unfair, brutal methods" on the part of the macronists.

  But she assures us to savor her "brilliant victory" and announces "to continue her commitment", hoping for a "large number of deputies" in the June legislative elections.

• Above all, do not miss the famous outstretched hand from the back seat, the first public revelation of an elected president.

  9:24 p.m., Emmanuel Macron rolls down the car window.

  “Here is finally this image that we have been waiting for all evening”, enthuses a presenter on a TV set.

• Several hundred demonstrators, mainly young "anti-fascists" and "anti-capitalists", are protesting against the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in a few cities in France, marked by incidents in Rennes as well as in Paris.

• 9:33 p.m., the double basses introducing the European anthem, already used in 2017, resound at the Champ de Mars.

  But the lonely man in the Louvre of five years ago has been replaced by the man surrounded by dozens of relatives - including his wife and children of activists.

• "Thank you, yes, above all, thank you," he said, his voice higher than usual under the influence of emotion, once on the podium without pomp.

  A few minutes of a sober and collected speech follow, in which the candidate does not forget to thank those who helped him to "block the far right" without adhering to his ideas.

  Before saying he wants to persevere in his project to "unleash creativity and innovation".

• In the center of Nantes, a procession of around 400 to 500 people marched behind a banner proclaiming a “need for revolution”.

  In Paris, the re-elected president is already in a car in the direction of the residence of Lantern, in Versailles.

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