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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. that's in contrast to the predicted win for emmanuel macron, with a vote share of 58.5%. with the latest from paris, here's our europe editor, katya adler. emmanuel macron, one of europe's most powerful leaders, clearly reconfirmed tonight. the first french president to be re—elected in two decades. his supporters, ecstatic and relieved. we feel safer for the next five years. because marine le pen is the...

Rejection of le pen and her pro-putin, anti-nato stance. 58.5% to 41.5%. people said last night, oh, in america, that'd 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 putin. he certainly has gotten the exact opposite of what his objectives were, which was undermining na...

Talking to your banker. i really do think for the french electorate, that clarified things. at that point, that's when i was certain we weren't 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 these days, one of these days, western analysts aren't going to be, like, freaking out and settin...

And that would be good. and you're 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 kennedy earlier in the show, democracy seems to be on a winning formula versus right-wing populism. >> w...

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 i'm 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 interesting to hear how he calibrated.— interesting to hear how he calibrated. . , ., ., , , cal...