• Emmanuel Macron, France’s former economy minister, has defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen with 66 to 34 percent support.
• Macron is slated to be inaugurated as the eighth president of the Fifth Republic next week. He will serve a five-year term.
• His next test will come in June, when France holds parliamentary elections. Macron’s centrist En Marche! has no seats in the National Assembly.

Results

Macron	Le Pen
66.1%	33.9%