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Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen of the Front National, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten....

Seen as key a year leader, particularly following the departure of angela merkel, the german chancellor, and why he didn't get stuck into the campaign soon he was busy with dealing with nato and european union to tackle russian aggression. european union to tackle russian aggression-— aggression. many thanks, jessica there, at aggression. many thanks, jessica there. at the _ aggression. many thanks, jessica there, at the macron _ aggression. many thanks, jessica i there, at the macron headquarters. we are waiting for the exit poll, which usually gives a very accurate prediction of the result...

Could be much tighter than last time. what the president said tonight, it was going to be all about convincing the french, making sure they got out to vote. making sure those who hadn't got out to vote last time get out. so much hangs in the future, the position of france in the world, and you have to remember that although emmanuel macron got 28% of the vote tonight, a good win, better than expected, the extremes, whether it is far left or far right saw more than 50% of the vote tonight. so there are a lot of people extremely dissatisfied with what he had to do who voted either far right or f...

Months of taking office if she's elected president. one of the dynamics here is that the far left here, which didn't do so well tonight, came in fourth place, the fact is the far left also was against europe. so if this turns on the issue of europe, the next two weeks turn on the issue of europe, then some of those far left voters could very well go to the far right and that would be enough to maybe perhaps to propel le pen into the presidency. but at this point it's hard to imagine that happening, but you wonder where all the left wing voters are going to go because their candidates are now b...

I just see that cnn has heard that benoit hamon has urged his voters to swing to macron. he's urging his voters to vote for macron which answers a little bit that question i raised earlier, where is the left going to go. >> how potentially influential is that? >> well, he came in fifth place this evening. so -- well, he came in fifth place and the socialist party tends to vote as a bloc but there weren't many voting tonight. but the question is whether or not that bloc would be substantial enough to make it a sure thing for macron. whether they'll follow him or not, that remains another questi...