A solid defeat for extreme right- wing populism, and by extension Vladimir "Vlad the Invader" Putin and his American dummy Donald "Rump" Trump:
The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency with a decisive victory over the far-right Marine Le Pen that his supporters hailed as holding back the tide of populism.
Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “neither left nor right” independent promising to shake up the French political system, took 65.1% to Le Pen’s 34.9%, according to initial projections from early counts.The challenge going forward for Macron will be to address the underlying causes of LePen's appeal: the negative effects of globalization and dissatisfaction with the opaque bureaucracy of the European Union and its policies.
For the moment however, Vive la France!
