The vote was a record for the National Front and, she said, a mandate for it to become a new “patriotic and Republican alliance”<br />that would be “the primary opposition force against the new president.”<br />She added that the new political divide would be between “patriots and globalists” and<br />that her party would transform into a new political force reflecting all those who voted for her.<br />PARIS — Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France’s presidential election on Sunday, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far-right message<br />and backed his call for centrist change, according to partial returns.<br />Le Pen’s party, the far-right National Front, giving it new legitimacy even as the results showed<br />that the party remains anathema to much of the French electorate for its history of anti-Semitism, racism and Nazi nostalgia.<br />His message — that his new movement is neither right nor left,<br />but represents a third way, with elements of both — seemed to have appealed to numerous urban voters as well as to many young voters.<br />The far-right French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, thanked her supporters<br />and congratulated her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, after pollsters projected that he would be the next president.<br />Macron Decisively Defeats Le Pen in French Presidential Race -<br />By ALISSA J. RUBINMAY 7, 2017<br />France’s president-elect spoke at the Louvre after defeating the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen.
