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French voters have chosen to re—elect a sitting president. a few hours ago, his challenger, marine le pen, conceded, with exit polls suggesting she had gained just under 41.5% of the vote. thats in contrast to the predicted win for emmanuel macron, with a vote share of 58.5%. with the latest from paris, heres our europe editor, katya adler. emmanuel macron, one of europes most powerful leaders, clearly reconfirmed tonight. the first french president to be re—elected in two decades. his suppo...

Rejection of le pen and her pro-putin, anti-nato stance. 58.5% to 41.5%. people said last night, oh, in america, thatd be a landslide. you know what you call that in france? a landlandslide. it is a landslide and a complete, total rejection. the center has held on the six out of ten voters choosing the center to extremism. this is an extraordinarily strong report card for the same nato that donald trump and vladimir putin wanted to destroy a year and a half ago. >> amazing miscalculation by puti...

Talking to your banker. i really do think for the french electorate, that clarified things. at that point, thats when i was certain we werent going to have this tight race that everybody else was predicting. i thought after the debate that it seemed pretty evident he was going to get over 55, 56, 57%. of course, he landed right there at 58.8%. >> 58.5%. >> let we just say, this is a landslide in america. let me just say, this is a landslide in france, as well. le pen, once again, crushed. one of...

And that would be good. and youre starting with right-wing populism. >> at the beginning of 2021, there were 17 right-wing pop list leaders and now there are down to 12. we have le pen and trump and putin losing on the big stage. the death -- you have talked about this throughout the show. death of democracy throughout the world has been greatly exaggerated and particularly what happened in france yesterday, 58.5% for macron, it looks like the world and your dad talked about this and david kenne...

Foot of the eiffel tower. there she goes. just to recap, so we are getting the projected victory figure now as being 58.5% for emmanuel macron, sojust nudging up and reversing pictures, as im talking to you, of the motorcade coming towards you. what will be interesting will be the turn of his speech because he has won, it is a huge moment for him but he has won with a smaller percentage of the vote and it sounds as if marine le pen has put on several million more votes than last time. it will be...

Person to do that for 20 years. but analysts keep pointing out that the figures dont look great for him — he has one by we think around 58.5% of the votes in the second round, which is less then he won by five years ago, when he got 66%. it appears that met him le pen, his defeated rival, has put on the region of 2—3,000,000 votes. this is yet to be absolutely confirmed, but this is what is being protected and estimated at the moment. and we heard during this campaign repeatedly, particularl...

Brussels is beaming, as well. katya adler, bbc news, paris. a short time ago, i spoke to my colleague reeta chakrabarti, who has been analysing the result in paris. it is sweet because it is victory and hes pulled off this great feat of being elected twice in a row, the first person to do that for 20 years. but analysts keep pointing out that the figures dont look great for him — he has won by we think around 58.5% of the votes in the second round, which is less then he won by five years ago, ...

Elections in less than two weeks time. more now on our top story: and the french presidential election which emmanuel macron is projected to have won for a historic second term. lets go live now to paris, and reeta chakrabarti. with me is edouard lecerf, who is the director of french polling firm bva. have been watching developments and with emmanuel macron winning by we think 58.5%, a projected figure, thatis think 58.5%, a projected figure, that is rather less than he won by, five years ago. h...

Macron, who is projected to have just won a second term as president of france. the latest figures we have are a vote share of 58.5% for emmanuel macron, against 41.5% for his rival, contender, marine le pen. she has conceded defeat. she did so, over an hour ago, she has conceded defeat. she did so, overan hourago, and she has conceded defeat. she did so, over an hour ago, and you are seeing president macron enjoying his moment, enjoying his moment among his supporters, among party members. and ...

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