Rising wave of populism<\/h2>\n
Le Pen’s spot in the runoff is seen as a victory for the rising wave of populism reflected by the votes for U.S. President Donald Trump and Brexit \u2014 the British departure from the European Union.<\/p>\n
Trump weighed in on the campaign on Friday, expressing support for the Le Pen, saying she is “strongest on borders, and she’s the strongest on what’s been going on in France.”<\/p>\n
Macron, Le Pen qualify for 2nd round of France’s presidential election<\/strong>3:12<\/p>\n And her runoff spot sets up a race similar to the contest in the U.S., with a populist outsider vying against a centrist, albeit of an unusual political stamp, which may mean some surprises in the election process.<\/p>\n Though Macron, 39, is a comparative political novice who has never held elected office, opinion polls in the run-up to the ballot have consistently seen him easily winning the final clash against Le Pen.<\/p>\n Macron supporters at his election day headquarters in Paris went wild at the polling agency projections, cheering, singing La Marseillaise<\/em>\u00a0anthem, waving French tricolour flags and European flags and shouting “Macron, president!”<\/p>\n Macron called on all “patriots” to rally behind him against the threat of what he called “nationalists.”<\/p>\n “I want to be the president of patriots against the threat of nationalists,” the centrist told a cheering crowd of supporters.<\/p>\n Supporters of Macron wait for his arrival at the Parc des Expositions hall. (Philippe Wojazer\/Reuters)<\/p>\n Le Pen supporters were equally enthusiastic.<\/p>\n With a broad smile, Le Pen stood before an adoring crowd, said her National Front party will represent “the great alternative” to the French people and pledged to open a “much-needed” debate on globalization.<\/p>\n “We will win!” Le Pen supporters chanted in her election day headquarters in the northern French town of Henin-Beaumont. They burst into a rendition of the French national anthem, and waved French flags and blue flags with “Marine President” inscribed on them.<\/p>\n Supporters of Marine Le Pen, the French National Front political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, hold flags as they wait for her arrival in Henin-Beaumont before results in the first round of 2017 French presidential election, France. (Pascal Rossignol\/Reuters)<\/p>\n Protesters angry that\u00a0Le Pen is advancing to the French presidential runoff scuffled\u00a0with police in Paris.<\/p>\n Crowds of young people, some from anarchist and “anti-fascist” groups\u00a0gathered on the Place de la Bastille in eastern Paris as results were coming in from Sunday’s first-round vote.<\/p>\n Police fired tear gas to disperse an increasingly rowdy crowd. Riot police surrounded the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n Protesters have greeted several of Le Pen’s campaign events, angry at her anti-immigration policies and her party, which she has sought to detoxify after a past tainted by racism and\u00a0anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n Police officers spray gas on demonstrators, who are angry that far-right leader Marine Le Pen is advancing to the French presidential runoff, during a protest in Paris. (Kamil Zihnioglu\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n French police detained three people in the election night protests, as demonstrators burned cars, danced around bonfires and dodged riot police.<\/p>\n A Paris police official says that no injuries have been reported in scuffles between protesters and police at the Place de la Bastille.<\/p>\n Protesters waved red flags and sang “No Marine and No Macron!” in anger at the results of Sunday’s first-round presidential election.<\/p>\n Later, around 300 people gathered at a peaceful protest at nearby Place de la R\u00e9publique, waving red flags and dancing around the flames of a bonfire.<\/p>\n Defeated\u00a0Socialist\u00a0candidate\u00a0Beno\u00eet\u00a0Hamon\u00a0urged voters to rally behind Macron in the second round, as did senior conservative lawmaker\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois\u00a0<\/span>Baroin,\u00a0from the camp of defeated right-wing candidate Fillon.<\/p>\n Fillon, who had consistently been polling third in surveys leading up to the election, said he would vote for Macron on May 7\u00a0because Le Pen’s program “would bankrupt France” and throw the EU into chaos. He also cited the history of “violence and intolerance” of Le Pen’s far-right National Front party.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, left, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon and Marine Le Pen were in a tight race in the first round of the French presidential election. (Patrick Kovarik\/Pool\/Reuters)<\/p>\n In a brief televised message less than 30 minutes after the last polling stations closed, Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve also urged voters to back Macron “to beat the National Front and block its funereal project of regression for France and of division of the French.”<\/p>\n Hamon, who was far behind in Sunday’s results, quickly conceded defeat. Declaring “the left is not dead!” he urged supporters to back Macron.<\/p>\n French far-left candidate M\u00e9lenchon\u00a0has refused to concede defeat in the first-round presidential vote.<\/p>\n In a defiant speech to supporters, he says that he will continue to await results, though\u00a0with 50 per cent of the vote counted, he was clearly in fourth place.<\/p>\n Votes from France’s cities, where M\u00e9lenchon\u00a0draws his support, were not yet in the tally.<\/p>\n French university student and Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon supporter Clara Lamotte reacts as she watches the televised French presidential elections at a viewing event held by the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al in Montreal. (Dario Ayala\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The result, if confirmed, will mean a face-off between politicians with radically contrasting economic visions for a country whose economy lags that of its neighbours and where a quarter of young people are unemployed.<\/p>\n That in turn reduces the prospect of an anti-establishment shock on the scale of Britain’s vote last June to quit the EU and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.<\/p>\n Early indications from Reuters data showed the\u00a0euro\u00a0currency jumping to a four-week high around $1.09 US in response to the early projections, up from $1.0726.<\/p>\n Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyon, France. (Emmanuel Foudrot\/Reuters)<\/p>\n Macron favours gradual deregulation measures that will be welcomed by global financial markets, while Le Pen wants to ditch the\u00a0euro\u00a0currency.<\/p>\n CBC’s\u00a0Nalah\u00a0Ayed\u00a0was at a Le Pen rally as the results came in\u00a0and says one of\u00a0the first things the\u00a0National Front leader\u00a0would\u00a0like to do as president is to hold a referendum on getting France out of the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We have heard from the Le Pen side saying this is a vote\u00a0about\u00a0globalization,”\u00a0CBC’s\u00a0Nalah\u00a0Ayed\u00a0said from France. “And others are saying that it’s going to be about belonging to the European Union.”<\/p>\n Le Pen voted this morning in\u00a0H\u00e9nin-Beaumont, a former mining town of 26,000 that has become a National Front\u00a0stronghold. Long faithful to the left, voters there threw their support to Le Pen’s party\u00a0in 2014, electing Mayor\u00a0Steeve\u00a0Briois.<\/p>\n Where the other leading candidates are holding their election nights\u00a0in Paris, Le Pen decided to host hers in\u00a0H\u00e9nin-Beaumont.<\/p>\n “The establishment candidates will all be in Paris,” said\u00a0Briois\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0Journal\u00a0Sud-Ouest. “By coming to a more rural area, she’s chosen to give a different image.”<\/p>\n Le Pen has long cast her\u00a0anti-EU\u00a0party as the anti-establishment\u00a0option and champion to those left behind by de-industrialization and\u00a0globalization.<\/p>\n Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right party Front National, casts a ballot in Henin-Beaumont in northern France. Le Pen will challenge Macron for the presidency. (Charles Platiau\/Reuters)<\/p>\n Whatever the outcome on May 7, it will mean a redrawing of France’s political landscape, which has been dominated for 60 years by mainstream groupings from the centre-left and centre-right, both of whose candidates faded.<\/p>\n Macron ally G\u00e9rard\u00a0Collomb\u00a0said the defeat of the mainstream centre-left Socialists and the centre-right Republicans showed a “deep malaise” in French society.<\/p>\n The final outcome on May 7 will influence France’s standing in Europe and the world as a nuclear-armed, veto-wielding member of the UN\u00a0Security Council and founding member of the organisation that transformed itself into the European Union.<\/p>\n French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron, left, casts his ballot at a polling station in Le Touquet in northern France. (Eric Feferberg\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ballots for the presidential election were cast under heightened security.\u00a0Over 60,000 polling stations opened for voters who\u00a0chose between 11 candidates in the most unpredictable election in decades.<\/p>\n Security was tight after a deadly attack on the Champs Elys\u00e9e<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday in which a police officer and a gunman were slain. The government has mobilized more than 50,000 police and gendarmes to protect polling stations, with an additional 7,000 soldiers on patrol.<\/p>\n It’s the first time in living memory a presidential election is taking place during a state of emergency, which was put in place after the Paris attacks of November 2015.<\/p>\n Soldiers were deployed across France to ensure voting went safely. Inside this polling station in central Paris, a private security employee watches as people cast ballots. (Nahlah Ayed\/CBC)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/france-election-vote-1.4081777?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen are set to face each other in a May 7 runoff for the French presidency after coming first and second in Sunday’s first round of voting, early projections indicated. 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<\/p>\nProtests erupt<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nEndorsements come in<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nM\u00e9lenchon\u00a0refuses\u00a0to concede\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nContrasting economic visions<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nLe Pen’s anti-establishment image<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nRedrawing\u00a0France’s political landscape<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nTight security<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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