MACRON defeated LE PEN to become France’s youngest president at age thirty-nine.
Macron easily beat far-right National Front leader MARINE LE PEN after a bitter contest pitting his pro-EU liberal platform against her calls for France to close its borders and pull out of the euro single currency.
LE PEN conceded defeat and said she called EMMANUEL MACRON to congratulate him.
MACRON’s supporters, who gathered outside the Louvre museum in central Paris, broke out in wild cheers and waved the French flag as the news came through.
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