Few scenes of jubilation as Emmanuel Macron was re-elected President. French voters held their noses and voted without evident enthusiasm for five more years.
French exit predictions, based on actual voting, not exit polls, are invariably lethally on target. As the polls closed they forecast 57.6 per cent for Macron, 42.4 per cent for Marine Le Pen. The official result will be certified on Tuesday but there’s no doubt.
Le Pen’s political career should now be over. Yet in her combative concession speech, she sounded as if she would go on and on
We were supposed to pretend that we didn’t know who had won the French presidential election until after 8 p.m. when the polls closed in the bigger cities. But the French exit predictions are fast and accurate so the Tweets and WhatsApps were coded: Poudré 54-58 per cent. Cat Woman 42-46 per cent.
But abstentions were strikingly high.
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