With every step he takes, with every gesture he makes in the coming months, Emmanuel Macron will have to keep in mind the abyss into which his country was ready to fall.
By Beatrice Delvaux
Un immense, intense relief. For a few days, and even more so in the last few hours, the prospect of a far-right president seizing power in France had aroused enormous anxiety. This Sunday evening, it is France but also Europe and the world that breathe better: the arrival of Marine Le Pen at the Elysée Palace was a bomb placed under the values of democracies, a potential earthquake for European construction and a major mortgage on the major geopolitical balances. It should not be forgotten.
The importance of the victory of the “values” camp is to be noted by its principle and its magnitude: 58.8% for Emmanuel Macron, it is a score much larger than some dared to hope for an outgoing president. , in a context of animosity, electoral abstention but above all the trivialization of the far right without precedent.
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