France’s incumbent president Emmanuel Macron soundly defeated the far-right opposition candidate Marine Le Pen on Sunday, securing a second term with a majority of votes. Macron won 58.6% of the vote to LePen’s 41.4%. The margin is closer than their last face-off in 2017, when Macron won by more than 30 percentage points. This time the margin was significantly reduced, signaling a growing discontent with the reelected president, despite another comfortable win over Le Pen, who ran on a platform aimed at working class families and bringing down the cost of living. In his victory speech, Macron quickly acknowledged that […]
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