Under the Eiffel Tower, the supporters of Emmanuel Macron , who won for the second consecutive time against Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections, sing wrapped in the tricolors.

The vote ends 58 to 42 , with a "score" higher than expected in recent days, but far from 66 to 34 in 2017.

Great disappointment among the supporters of Le Pen, despite the leader immediately proclaiming a "sensational result" promising battle for the June legislative elections.

After sunset, expected by a few thousand supporters, Macron arrived under the Eiffel Tower in a very different atmosphere from that of 5 years ago, when France celebrated its youngest president (39 years) and he measured - alone - the footsteps of the perimeter of the Louvre to the notes of the Ode to Joy. That music, a European symbol, returned to the background last night when Macron approached the stage, no longer alone but hand in hand with Brigitte , surrounded by a group of very young boys.

Then the speech, with the announcement of "a new era" and the promise to "respond to the anger of the country".

He was also applauded by several government ministers, from Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) to Clément Beaune (European Affairs). Many of them already know - like Prime Minister Jean Castex - that for them the adventure is about to end. Macron promised that the new mandate "will not be a continuation of the past 5 years", marked by deep crises such as that of the Yellow Vests.

The president's first thought on stage, however, was for those who "do not share our ideas" but who voted for him to "block the way to the far right": "In the next few years - he promised - I will be indebted to of them".

France, once again, had to vote in the ballot for a candidate who was a bulwark against the far right. It happened 20 years ago to Jacques Chirac , the last president to be re-elected to the Elysée before Macron, who opposed Marine's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. That was the first time that a leader of the Front National, the far right, reached the second round of the presidential elections and the shock for France was enormous: every day, in the streets of Paris, thousands of people took to the streets to say no to all. ultra right in power.

"The anger and disagreements that led so many people to vote for the far right must find an answer - the president said last night - must find an answer. This will be my responsibility and those around me".

Le Pen has promised that he will never "abandon" the French and announced a few minutes after the announcement of the results the start of the "battle of the legislatures".

I TAFFERUGLI - Following Macron's victory, a few hundred demonstrators, especially young people from the "antifas" groups, held marches in Paris and other French cities to protest against re-election. Immediately after the announcement, in the center of Paris - the district of Les Halles - between 250 and 300 anti-FAS protesters marched shouting "Macron go away", clashing with the police. Among the slogans, "Marine Le Pen sucks" and "Manu Macron, sucks". The procession reached the place de la République. On the way, objects and stones thrown at the police, overturned dumpsters and parked mopeds.

Violence in Rennes , in the north-west, where 250 people gathered in the center behind a banner that reads "What we will not get from the polls, we will get from the square". Among the slogans, "Macron wages war on us with his police" and "Down with the state, the cops and the fascists". Dumpsters set on fire with the intervention of firefighters on several occasions. Seven protesters were detained.

Accidents also in the center of Nantes , during a protest march of 400-500 people, as well as in Toulouse, shouting "Neither Macron, nor Le Pen, revolution". 200 marched in Caen, a hundred in Strasbourg, without incident.

TWO DEAD - In Paris some policemen shot last night in the center at a vehicle that tried to hit them, killing two occupants and wounding a third . According to the first elements gathered, the vehicle was traveling in the wrong direction and the police were then stopping it for a check, when the driver aimed at the agents trying to go at him and they opened fire. An investigation has already been opened for "attempted manslaughter of persons holding public powers".

DRAGHI: "WONDERFUL NEWS" - "Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential elections is splendid news for all of Europe. Italy and France are committed side by side, together with all the other partners, to build a ' European Union stronger , more cohesive , more just, capable of being the protagonist in overcoming the great challenges of our times, starting with the war in Ukraine. premier Mario Dragh i. Congratulations to the French president also include those of Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping .

(Unioneonline / vl)

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