President Emmanuel Macron thanks voters after re-election victory

President Emmanuel Macron stated a easy “Thank you!” after successful reelection, and praised the bulk who gave him 5 extra years on the helm of France.

Macron additionally thanked individuals who voted for him not as a result of they embrace his concepts however as a result of they needed to reject far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

“I’m not the candidate of one camp anymore, but the president of all of us,” he stated.

Macron comfortably gained reelection to a second time period Sunday, based on polling companies’ projections.

He arrived on the plaza the place his supporters gathered, beneath the Eiffel Tower, to the sound of the “Ode to Joy,” the European Union’s anthem, hand in hand together with his spouse, Brigitte.

Supporters of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen gathered at her election-night occasion in Paris’ Bois de Boulogne booed loudly as provisional outcomes have been introduced.

But they rapidly regarded forward to June legislative elections – as did Le Pen in her concession speech.

Francois Denormand, a retired dentist planning to run for a seat as a lawmaker for Le Pen’s National Rally celebration in June’s legislative elections stated that what he referred to as “the third round” begins tomorrow.

“We must continue to fight,” he stated. “We can lose the battle but not the war.”

Nineteen-year-old Paul Renkert, waving a French flag, admitted that “I’m sad.”

Renkert, who had traveled from the japanese Alsace area, stated he had invested time in Le Pen’s marketing campaign “because I believe in the future of France.”

He is waiting for the legislative elections and 5 years sooner or later when a brand new president is elected. Le Pen has not made recognized her intentions, however “I don’t think she’ll abandon us,” he stated.

Guests from overseas have been amongst these invited to the soiree. Among them was Tom Lamont, with Belgium’s far-right Vlaams Belang celebration, an ally of Le Pen’s National Rally. He, too, despatched out a message of hope. “It’s a disappointment she lost but we see the right-wing movements is growing in France … and maybe in five years we will have a right-wing president” right here,” he stated.