Second Round

:00:18. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to a special BBC News programme

:00:22. > :00:37.We have a very exciting evening ahead of us. Voters have gone to the

:00:38. > :00:40.polls and in just under half an hour's time we will get a rejection

:00:41. > :00:56.about who will become the next French president. Voters are

:00:57. > :01:00.eliminated at the first hurdle the mainstream parties. Over the course

:01:01. > :01:04.of the last two weeks they have been faced with two candidates who, let's

:01:05. > :01:20.face it, have given them a diametrically opposed vision. Let's

:01:21. > :01:30.start with Emmanuel Macron. He would be the youngest president since

:01:31. > :01:35.Napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town.

:01:36. > :01:39.He wants to shake up French politics. He wants to bring together

:01:40. > :01:46.he says a coalition of the willing which he said would be able to

:01:47. > :01:50.reform France. And he wants an open facing France at the centre of a

:01:51. > :01:58.much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is

:01:59. > :02:02.up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen

:02:03. > :02:06.of the Front National, the self-proclaimed champion of the

:02:07. > :02:11.forgotten. She was voting in the North where she has been a regional

:02:12. > :02:15.councillor. She has a very different vision. She would restore the

:02:16. > :02:23.borders of France. She would limit immigration, she would bring back

:02:24. > :02:25.the frank, she would give the French people a membership on their

:02:26. > :02:28.European Union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she

:02:29. > :02:32.is the only defender of French workers and French factories against

:02:33. > :02:36.the unbridled globalisation that is offered by Mr Mac run. Let's remind

:02:37. > :02:41.you of where the poles were on Friday.

:02:42. > :02:45.This opinion poll by OpinonWay - carried out on Friday -

:02:46. > :02:51.showed a clear lead for Emanuel Macron, giving him 62%

:02:52. > :03:01.compared to 38 percent for Marine Le Pen.

:03:02. > :03:10.Let me introduce you to two peephole, a friend of the BBC and

:03:11. > :03:18.visiting Professor at Havard University. And a representative of

:03:19. > :03:24.the polling agency who will hopefully tell us what the French

:03:25. > :03:28.people are thinking. Looking at the polls, a lot of people think

:03:29. > :03:33.Emmanuel Macron will be president by the end of this evening. Tell us a

:03:34. > :03:39.little bit about the initial projection, where does it come from

:03:40. > :03:49.and how confident can we be in that first one? Those predictions are

:03:50. > :03:55.based on the ballot counting so in polling stations so we are

:03:56. > :04:03.interrogating so we are waiting for the closure of each polling station

:04:04. > :04:09.and we are counting the first 100 or 200 et seq. And then we extrapolate

:04:10. > :04:13.and we begin to have by the way, an indication of the results. But let's

:04:14. > :04:20.see. These are strategic polling stations around the country which

:04:21. > :04:27.you have used before. Going back to 2002, you have more or less got it

:04:28. > :04:32.right. These predictions are really accurate so no problems for us. Tell

:04:33. > :04:36.us a little bit about turnout today. It seems to be a bit lower than what

:04:37. > :04:45.we had in the first round and quite a bit lower than the second-round

:04:46. > :04:51.vote in 2012. This is a kind of a record because except in 1969, just

:04:52. > :04:56.after the departure of General De Gaulle, this is a record because

:04:57. > :05:02.usually the turnout is higher for the second round. But you have

:05:03. > :05:08.probably followed the campaign between the two rounds, pretty tough

:05:09. > :05:13.campaign and I think it explains also that many people did not want

:05:14. > :05:20.to choose between the two candidates. This is the result of

:05:21. > :05:25.the first round with around four candidates so it is difficult for

:05:26. > :05:31.them to go and vote for another one. What is at stake tonight, Dominic?

:05:32. > :05:36.They are two candidates with very different visions of what France

:05:37. > :05:41.should become. I think what is at stake is not only the future of

:05:42. > :05:48.France, but to a large extent, the future of Europe, and even broader,

:05:49. > :05:55.the image of democracy in the world. Can democracies resist successfully

:05:56. > :05:59.the rise of populism? And if Macron were to be elected, that would give

:06:00. > :06:05.a message suddenly of optimism that would spread through the entire

:06:06. > :06:10.democratic world. From that standpoint, this is not a French

:06:11. > :06:15.election, this is an American type of election in the sense that the

:06:16. > :06:20.French for the first time are really choosing the path which the world,

:06:21. > :06:34.the democratic world is about to take. Let me just show our viewers

:06:35. > :06:37.some maps from 2012 and 2017. This one from 2012 show is half the

:06:38. > :06:44.country is split between was what land and Nicolas Sarkozy. This is

:06:45. > :06:50.the 2017 map. We have a large collar of blue in the north-east going for

:06:51. > :07:08.Marine Le Pen and in the line-up you have Mr Macron. I think we can look

:07:09. > :07:17.at map out swell. He took 33 districts from Francois Hollande and

:07:18. > :07:23.this is almost diametrically opposed from 2012. What is going on? You

:07:24. > :07:28.have a very divided France. It is in four parts and now there are only

:07:29. > :07:32.two candidates, so a lot of voters will decide they are not represented

:07:33. > :07:39.by the two that are remaining and either will decide to abstain or it

:07:40. > :07:48.is going to be probably an important factor in this round of elections,

:07:49. > :07:51.they have a vote blanc, they can write something which disqualifies

:07:52. > :07:56.their vote. They don't want to abstain but they do want to vote for

:07:57. > :08:07.any of the two candidates. That is particularly true if you look at the

:08:08. > :08:16.vote on the hard left, for Jean-Luc Melenchon. How many will go out to

:08:17. > :08:24.vote today? 50% of people intended to vote for Macron, but only around

:08:25. > :08:34.let's say 20% for Marine Le Pen and the rest, so 30% where hesitating.

:08:35. > :08:43.Maybe more for abstention or more for a blank ballot paper. There was

:08:44. > :08:46.a hashtag doing the rounds which translated as without me on the 7th

:08:47. > :08:51.of May. Millions of people of France do not see anyone to vote for in

:08:52. > :08:57.this second round. This is approved that there is a crisis of politics

:08:58. > :09:01.which is very serious in France -- this is the proof. The first task of

:09:02. > :09:10.the future president will be to try and reconcile French people with

:09:11. > :09:16.politics. I will not say reconcile with politics because French people

:09:17. > :09:22.are really, really passionate about politics and we saw that during

:09:23. > :09:28.those weeks, but it is true that the populism and populist candidates and

:09:29. > :09:36.the most traditional ones, that is also why Emmanuel Macron has emerged

:09:37. > :09:42.so easily. There are those cracks in our society. But once again, they

:09:43. > :09:47.are passionate. They want to believe, they still want to believe

:09:48. > :09:55.in politics because the turnout is really high anyway. They want a

:09:56. > :10:01.candidate in front of them who can give them this hope. I should just

:10:02. > :10:09.explain the setting behind us. It is beautiful. If you are wondering what

:10:10. > :10:13.the flag is, that is to mark the 8th of May anniversary, the victory Day

:10:14. > :10:18.for France at the end of the Second World War. Some of the steps

:10:19. > :10:21.underneath will be for the celebration in a few days' time.

:10:22. > :10:29.Whoever does become president will be inaugurated on a week on Sunday.

:10:30. > :10:34.At the latest. And the two presidents, the one who is elected

:10:35. > :10:38.tonight and the former president will be there tomorrow morning to

:10:39. > :10:50.celebrate together the victory over now to Germany in 1945. OK. Let's

:10:51. > :10:55.bring in Damian Grammaticus who is in place at the Macron HQ. I would

:10:56. > :11:01.think given the polling they saw on Friday they would be in a buoyant

:11:02. > :11:08.mood. They are. This is the Macron rally event which is planned if he

:11:09. > :11:17.emerges the winner. INAUDIBLE

:11:18. > :11:20.We are expecting possibly in a couple of hours' time, Mr Macron

:11:21. > :11:28.will come here, but right now, you have to say, are they excited? There

:11:29. > :11:35.are crowds of people, young supporters, who have all been given

:11:36. > :11:44.French national flags. I have to say that is a very multicultural mix...

:11:45. > :11:49.Damian, I'm sorry to interrupt, we are having some problems with your

:11:50. > :11:52.line. We will come back to you. As Damian was saying, in case you could

:11:53. > :11:57.not hear him, the celebrations this evening will be at the Louvre in the

:11:58. > :12:02.centre of Paris. People are starting to turn up. Lots of people carrying

:12:03. > :12:09.the French flag. There will be one rally there and one rally in the

:12:10. > :12:13.east of the city. We will go to Marine Le Pen's camp as an when she

:12:14. > :12:20.shows up there. Probably sometime in the next half an hour. Let's go to

:12:21. > :12:25.Bordeaux to speak to new low McGovern. She has been watching

:12:26. > :12:34.people voting down there. It is the seat of Alan Juppe, he is the mayor.

:12:35. > :12:39.-- Nuala McGovern. Our people excited to be going out and voting

:12:40. > :12:45.in the second round. I think they were in the morning. There were a

:12:46. > :12:50.few stragglers to my left who were popping in to cast their ballots. I

:12:51. > :12:55.was in the polling station a few minutes ago. I am in the town hall

:12:56. > :12:59.of this beautiful city right now. Two polling stations inside. Some

:13:00. > :13:04.people were coming in and saying so sorry I am late. But they were

:13:05. > :13:09.getting in their ballot. Turnout is no. It is a good few percentage

:13:10. > :13:13.points down. You mentioned Alan Juppe the mayor. This is his town

:13:14. > :13:18.hall. He was behind me a few minutes ago as we were watching Damien in

:13:19. > :13:25.Paris. He has gone into one of the corners here. He has gone to give a

:13:26. > :13:29.speech at the town Hall at about nine o'clock local time. His podium

:13:30. > :13:34.is ready and there is a grand chandelier over it. As he made his

:13:35. > :13:38.way through the courtyard he shook pounds with the police officers who

:13:39. > :13:45.are providing security which has become a feature at these polling

:13:46. > :13:50.stations -- he shook hands. I think the mood here is slightly different.

:13:51. > :13:53.Perhaps people who are coming up taking their time voting, perhaps

:13:54. > :13:58.more reluctant than the people who were in at the very first thing.

:13:59. > :14:03.There will be sensibly that there is only a few minutes to go. As we have

:14:04. > :14:07.seen in the round, projections come very quickly. French media is also

:14:08. > :14:14.beginning to stream into the town hall. And the Macron headquarters

:14:15. > :14:18.are not far from here where people will be heading to and also the

:14:19. > :14:35.offices of the Front National are having a party in Bordeaux. There is

:14:36. > :14:42.a very wealthy city near -- this is a wealthy city and it is perhaps

:14:43. > :14:45.insulated from much of France but there are still divisions when it

:14:46. > :14:49.comes to the candidate and perhaps a lot of resentment which has erupted

:14:50. > :14:57.throughout this campaign and trying to decide which way France should

:14:58. > :15:03.go, really from Monday morning. I should tell people that the polling

:15:04. > :15:07.stations in the towns have closed but in the bigger cities they will

:15:08. > :15:12.stay open until eight o'clock. That is an hour later than 2012. Because

:15:13. > :15:18.of the state of emergency security has been very tight? It has. I

:15:19. > :15:22.mentioned the police officers here. If you go outside the gates

:15:23. > :15:26.sometimes you will see the military armed guards who are walking

:15:27. > :15:30.through. It is kind of at odds because you have these beautiful big

:15:31. > :15:36.squares, small children on their scooters with their parents, perhaps

:15:37. > :15:39.dropping in to vote but flanked by these military patrols which I

:15:40. > :15:43.suppose have become part of French life. I have talked about terrorism

:15:44. > :15:48.and security to some of the voters here. It is not as high on the

:15:49. > :15:52.agenda as economy and jobs are and also the fact of the EU which these

:15:53. > :15:56.candidates have very different opinions on but it will also be a

:15:57. > :16:02.deciding factor. It will be interesting to see how it breaks

:16:03. > :16:06.down in this region and we know it will not be the socialist or the

:16:07. > :16:15.Republicans who will be holding the seat. It will be En Marche! Or Front

:16:16. > :16:21.National. We will find out not too long. Another half hour until we get

:16:22. > :16:29.some projections. Very much so. All the grandees have gone by the

:16:30. > :16:34.wayside. Sarkozy, Alan Juppe, Francois fill in and through the

:16:35. > :16:40.middle has ridden Macron and Marine Le Pen. We will be live at the

:16:41. > :16:42.Macron and Le Pen headquarters as France waits for those first results

:16:43. > :17:03.to come in. I had been joined by two more people

:17:04. > :17:07.who know something about France. Hugh Schofield is our Paris

:17:08. > :17:14.correspondent and also we have a civil rights campaigner. Tonight's

:17:15. > :17:21.result will have a direct impact on the future direction of the European

:17:22. > :17:33.Union ahead. This report on the day's voting from Hugh who has been

:17:34. > :17:39.out and about in Paris. You join me at a table in a school.

:17:40. > :17:44.People come to pick up their cards and they go to cast their ballots

:17:45. > :17:50.behind the curtain over here. A classic snapshot of a presidential

:17:51. > :17:55.election in France but in some way of the moment is different. One is

:17:56. > :18:00.that in Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen we have two leaders who are

:18:01. > :18:08.outside the existing political structures. We have seen a

:18:09. > :18:12.succession of establishment figures all just discarded as if the only

:18:13. > :18:16.political offering that has any meaning for people is one that is

:18:17. > :18:23.entirely new. The other point is in Macron and Le Pen we have two people

:18:24. > :18:27.who claim to transcend the old left right political divide. They both

:18:28. > :18:35.claim to drawing supporters from either end of the old political

:18:36. > :18:40.spectrum. In the new political grid, if you like, they represent very

:18:41. > :18:45.divergence ends. The pen for the revival of the nation, for borders

:18:46. > :18:50.and protection and Macron saying no, France have to engage in

:18:51. > :18:57.globalisation and it has to reform to do that better. In this divide

:18:58. > :19:01.between the two candidates, we see a fundamental argument about politics,

:19:02. > :19:02.modern politics, which has resonances well beyond the borders

:19:03. > :19:17.of France. Some of the thoughts from Hugh

:19:18. > :19:21.Schofield who has been out and about in Paris today. Let's show you some

:19:22. > :19:26.of the pictures of the Macron rally which is starting to build up in the

:19:27. > :19:35.Louvre Gardens this evening. Lots of people. You can see the Tricolore in

:19:36. > :19:39.full display. That is the glass pyramid. A lot of thought has gone

:19:40. > :19:44.into where Mr Macron should be this evening. There are lots of locations

:19:45. > :19:49.where he could have met his supporters. Every election there is

:19:50. > :19:58.a debate about where it should be. Last time it was in the left wing

:19:59. > :20:02.territory. With Jacques Chirac it was right wing territory. Macron

:20:03. > :20:08.likes to call himself neither one nor the other, he has gone somewhere

:20:09. > :20:12.where he thinks is neutral, the area in front of the Louvre has no

:20:13. > :20:17.association is one way or the other. You could say it has royalist

:20:18. > :20:22.connections! But for some reason or another it is not deemed to have any

:20:23. > :20:28.associations one way or the other, at least, that is the way he is

:20:29. > :20:31.spinning it. If he had gone to the Bastille or the east of the city

:20:32. > :20:38.would be seen as the left wing territory and broadly, it is in line

:20:39. > :20:45.with his new moderate centre. Says scenes of celebration is down there

:20:46. > :20:55.at the Louvre. How many people do you think in the

:20:56. > :20:59.suburbs, how much will they be celebrating this evening, given that

:21:00. > :21:04.if the polls are right, Marine Le Pen has been defeated? The whole

:21:05. > :21:12.country is not very fond of this election. It began with hysteria and

:21:13. > :21:22.corruption cases. People were told it was a matter of fact. 60% of

:21:23. > :21:27.people voted from Macron because they had no other choice. The

:21:28. > :21:37.country is deeply divided along racial lines. The difference will

:21:38. > :21:43.not be as big as in 2002 when we had 82% for Jacques Chirac. The losers

:21:44. > :21:47.of globalisation is, of the working class will be decimated by this

:21:48. > :21:51.programme. Emmanuel Macron wants to run the country like a start-up

:21:52. > :21:59.company. The problem is we have seen what that economy does with people

:22:00. > :22:06.being held hostages because they pay all the social taxes and the emperor

:22:07. > :22:12.gets away with the profits. This is a problem for a lot of voters in

:22:13. > :22:20.France, Mr Macron, as Marine Le Pen has tried to paint him, is very much

:22:21. > :22:26.seen as the continuity candidate, Hugh? You have the extreme right and

:22:27. > :22:29.extreme financiers, the phrase they have cooked up to paint someone in

:22:30. > :22:34.the colours of someone who is in the wilder fringes of political life and

:22:35. > :22:37.therefore dangerous. We do have 50% of the population who voted for

:22:38. > :22:44.Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Melenchon on the far left and the other fringe

:22:45. > :22:50.candidates so you have over half the country who would not agree with his

:22:51. > :22:54.broadly liberal views. His argument would be that is precisely what

:22:55. > :22:58.France needs. It is because of the failure to enact gradual reform of

:22:59. > :23:02.any kind that we have the blockage and the fight to the extremes. I

:23:03. > :23:07.guess he was correct, that is not how it is perceived by many, many

:23:08. > :23:11.people. The great challenge of the next five years is to see if he can

:23:12. > :23:15.unblock things. He is a magician with words, can he be a magician

:23:16. > :23:22.with actuality and get the changes which he says are too long in

:23:23. > :23:25.coming, which should not be too hard if only people of goodwill came

:23:26. > :23:31.together in the middle. He is a remarkable man and they may be can

:23:32. > :23:34.bring it. For our viewers who are just joining us we are about seven

:23:35. > :23:38.minutes away from our first projection. We will get a sense of

:23:39. > :23:42.which way this presidential election has gone, whether it is Macron or

:23:43. > :23:48.Marine Le Pen who has been chosen to lead France for the next five years.

:23:49. > :23:51.What we do know is a revolution in French politics is underway. Neither

:23:52. > :24:00.candidate represents one of the country's traditional of government.

:24:01. > :24:07.They got knocked out two weeks ago. Karen Giannone has been out and

:24:08. > :24:12.about. In this final round of France's

:24:13. > :24:17.presidential election, voters only have two candidates left to choose

:24:18. > :24:25.from. But under French electoral law they also have three other options.

:24:26. > :24:29.First of all there is abstention. The French can choose not to vote,

:24:30. > :24:33.either out of principle or apathy and this can affect turnout which is

:24:34. > :24:40.traditionally very high in France. In the last round it was 77.8%. In

:24:41. > :24:47.ten to 12 it was over 80%. Some think this time around would be the

:24:48. > :25:01.lowest turnout ever. Voters do have two other choices. One is vote nul,

:25:02. > :25:06.to simply spoil the ballot paper. But for the first time there is

:25:07. > :25:11.another choice. The third option is the vote blanc, the black vote. That

:25:12. > :25:15.means you wanted to take part in the election but you rejected all the

:25:16. > :25:20.candidates on offer. You can do that by dropping an empty envelope or

:25:21. > :25:24.blank ballot paper into the box. Under new rules introduced last

:25:25. > :25:27.year, these votes are counted. While neither candidate can claim them, we

:25:28. > :25:33.will see the figures show up at the end of all this.

:25:34. > :25:37.As he was telling us, there will be plenty of people in France who will

:25:38. > :25:42.be voting for Emmanuel Macron but they do not thoroughly agree with

:25:43. > :25:46.the policies he puts forward. One poll said 60% of people will vote

:25:47. > :25:51.for him without fully agreeing with his programme. He is the anything

:25:52. > :25:57.but candidate, anything to keep up Marine Le Pen and the Front

:25:58. > :26:04.National. Our other guests are back with us. Either candidate will have

:26:05. > :26:09.a huge challenge bringing the very divided country back together and of

:26:10. > :26:12.course, we are looking with one eye at the parliamentary elections in

:26:13. > :26:19.June. Does it necessarily follow that whoever wins tonight will be

:26:20. > :26:23.able to win a majority in the country? No, it does not. It

:26:24. > :26:26.traditionally occurs which means the French tends to be the just lists.

:26:27. > :26:33.They want to give a majority to the man they have elected as their

:26:34. > :26:40.president. But this year, it is really so you may not derive from

:26:41. > :26:45.the past lessons for the future. No, he does not have a majority to

:26:46. > :26:51.govern tonight. He will have to concur it if he is elected. He has

:26:52. > :26:58.no politicians in the party so he has to win at least 289 MPs around

:26:59. > :27:03.the country out of 577, and people will know whatever country they are

:27:04. > :27:05.in watching around the world, that old parties are deeply embedded in

:27:06. > :27:17.society is, in different towns insists -- and districts it is not

:27:18. > :27:22.easy. It is not easy but we do not know the influence on the ground of

:27:23. > :27:29.this movement, En Marche!. This is a real challenge for him. This is the

:27:30. > :27:37.third round of the election. He maybe not in an position to confirm.

:27:38. > :27:43.It could be him, it could be Marine Le Pen, but for both of them they

:27:44. > :27:48.may not be in a position to govern. The larger, the majority of the

:27:49. > :27:52.winner, the easier to get a majority because you have a bigger

:27:53. > :27:59.legitimacy. You can they look, this is the difference between me and my

:28:00. > :28:03.adverse three being elected significantly or not triumphantly.

:28:04. > :28:08.You have to give me a majority. The big parties will be licking their

:28:09. > :28:12.wounds, particularly the Republicans who feel cheated in this election.

:28:13. > :28:21.They feel this was their election to win and they will not roll over

:28:22. > :28:27.willingly. I think this will be difficult for the Republicans

:28:28. > :28:37.because this will be about their unity as well. We have already heard

:28:38. > :28:45.about rallies for Macron and on the left, there would probably be a

:28:46. > :28:51.tension between Melenchon's voters and he could legitimately pretend to

:28:52. > :28:58.be the head of the left and the Socialist parties. Some of them

:28:59. > :29:02.could be prompted to have a deal with Emmanuel Macron. I think in the

:29:03. > :29:09.two following weeks will be decisive for everyone. Just very quickly? It

:29:10. > :29:13.is premature to declare the death of the right and the left in France,

:29:14. > :29:18.but it is probably right to say the Socialist Party, as it exists is now

:29:19. > :29:27.that. Yes, the Socialist Party taking just 6% of the vote, a

:29:28. > :29:32.lamentable 6%. We understand the Socialists will be making a

:29:33. > :29:37.statement 15 minutes after the first projection comes out. On the right,

:29:38. > :29:41.Francois Fillon stood aside last week. We understand Mr Barr on is

:29:42. > :29:49.telling his MPs that they should not fraternise with the party of Mr

:29:50. > :29:54.Macron. You are watching a BBC News French election special. It is

:29:55. > :29:59.coming up to eight o'clock here in Paris. The polls have closed around

:30:00. > :30:05.the country. 66,000 polling stations around the country are closing. The

:30:06. > :30:12.BBC can now give you the early projections that show that Emmanuel

:30:13. > :30:16.Macron will be the next president of France. This is the polling

:30:17. > :30:27.projection that we have, 65.5% for Emmanuel Macron. This is from the

:30:28. > :30:39.polling agency with us tonight. And 34.5% for Marine Le Pen.

:30:40. > :30:44.You can hear plenty of people sounding their horns, very pleased

:30:45. > :30:46.with those rip ports. It is pretty much in line with the polling we

:30:47. > :30:53.have had throughout the last two weeks. A bit higher than of late.

:30:54. > :31:06.But the debate has played a crucial role. I think it was clear also that

:31:07. > :31:09.she probably gets there would be a slight demotivation against her

:31:10. > :31:14.voters and probably also less people coming from the other candidates

:31:15. > :31:20.towards her, and I think this would be the contrary for Macron. The

:31:21. > :31:24.trick will being flown, these are the young Macron supporters, it is

:31:25. > :31:30.quite extraordinary wireless piety has come from. Truly unprecedented.

:31:31. > :31:36.It isn't even a party. No, it is a movement. A political fairy tale,

:31:37. > :31:43.there is no other word to describe it. Someone who was unknown to years

:31:44. > :31:49.ago that they could be elected tonight with 65.5% of the vote,

:31:50. > :32:02.which is a very significant victory, which gives him a lot of legitimacy.

:32:03. > :32:09.Is not really an asset in politics. 39 years of age. I understand he is

:32:10. > :32:14.the youngest president who will be elected in the top four Western

:32:15. > :32:26.democracies. The youngest in France since 1848, Louis Bonaparte! It is

:32:27. > :32:31.very different. He comes not from a great political family, not even

:32:32. > :32:41.from Paris, but from the provinces. Plus I think also political men is

:32:42. > :32:51.that position in not the right or the left, and this is also

:32:52. > :33:02.something. Let's go to the Louvre. They quite like that, Damian.

:33:03. > :33:43.INAUDIBLE As your guests which are saying...

:33:44. > :33:46.When we can make contact with him properly we will bring you

:33:47. > :33:51.something. I think you can get a feeling of what it is like that. We

:33:52. > :33:54.understand Mr Macron is going to give a more sober speech at his

:33:55. > :33:58.headquarters in the course of the next half hour before he goes down

:33:59. > :34:03.to the stage at the Louvre to speak to his supporters. But we were just

:34:04. > :34:09.talking a bit about the background. When you look back to this time last

:34:10. > :34:12.year you would have put a fairly big bets on Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine

:34:13. > :34:16.Le Pen perhaps in the second round, at least somebody from the

:34:17. > :34:21.Republican party. Of course Nicolas Republican party. Of course Nicolas

:34:22. > :34:28.Sarkozy was immolated in the primaries. I would've said the

:34:29. > :34:35.logical favourite was Alain. The oldest, the wisest and of course he

:34:36. > :34:41.did not make it in the primaries. And of course Francois Fillon had

:34:42. > :34:45.this family jobs corruption scandal hanging over him. A lot of people

:34:46. > :34:50.were very bitty about what happened in the Republican party. We will

:34:51. > :34:54.hear from some of them tonight. The political winds of fortune have been

:34:55. > :35:00.blowing all the way for Emmanuel Macron. What do you mean? He has

:35:01. > :35:05.been very lucky throughout. He has come right through the middle,

:35:06. > :35:10.largely because of the corruption investigation... But also because

:35:11. > :35:17.during both primaries this is the most left and the most left-wing and

:35:18. > :35:22.the most right-wing candidates that have been chosen, and that also left

:35:23. > :35:26.a big space for the centre. That is why once again this is probably the

:35:27. > :35:31.right guy at the right place at the right moment. There was an alignment

:35:32. > :35:37.of planets, so to speak, that is unique, but exceptional

:35:38. > :35:44.circumstances sometimes give rise to exceptional people. And he probably

:35:45. > :35:49.places himself in a very limited category. There are very few names

:35:50. > :35:56.that come to mind. Clearly, De Gaulle comes to mind. Bonaparte

:35:57. > :35:59.comes to mind. Is he that exceptional? He went to an Ivy

:36:00. > :36:06.then the classical training ground then the classical training ground

:36:07. > :36:11.for French politicians. Rothschild bank, economy Minister, and in a

:36:12. > :36:18.short space of time... He must be a very intelligent mind. He is truly

:36:19. > :36:29.exceptional. To be a high technocrat is easy and from that standpoint his

:36:30. > :36:37.political views and political background... Here's something more,

:36:38. > :36:42.something more mysterious. He has an empathy of a political kind which

:36:43. > :36:46.you would find very rarely. I think in America Bill Clinton had that

:36:47. > :36:51.kind of empathy with others. There is a huge cacophony of sound around

:36:52. > :36:57.the Champs-Elysees. People beeping their horns. More so than usual,

:36:58. > :37:02.this evening. Let's go back to the Louvre and see if we can hear

:37:03. > :37:09.Damian. We had some problems with communications, but hopefully we can

:37:10. > :37:13.hear you now. We have had some problems but that is because there

:37:14. > :37:18.are so many people here who have now streams in and the sound system they

:37:19. > :37:23.were making so much noise. The excitement here has been, since that

:37:24. > :37:31.initial prediction came up on the big screens, 65 pop .5% for Emmanuel

:37:32. > :37:36.Macron, the crowd are delighted. Thereafter hundreds and hundreds of

:37:37. > :37:41.them, young Macron supporters, very young, have all streamed in, we are

:37:42. > :37:45.at the bottom end of the Champs-Elysees. They have all been

:37:46. > :37:48.coming in in the last couple of hours carrying their flags. They are

:37:49. > :37:53.coming here because they are expecting Mr Macron to come and talk

:37:54. > :37:58.to them in an hour and a half or so, and they of course were delighted

:37:59. > :38:05.because that result, 65%, if that is borne out in the final results, that

:38:06. > :38:09.surpasses anybody's expectations. There was an expectation, if he did

:38:10. > :38:15.well, according to the projections, he might get around 60%. But voters

:38:16. > :38:23.today we were talking to were very nervous about the outcome. Here that

:38:24. > :38:25.65% sent them into ecstasies. Damian, when he comes down of course

:38:26. > :38:32.a lot of people will be focusing on a lot of people will be focusing on

:38:33. > :38:36.the woman standing next to him, the woman who is 24 years his senior.

:38:37. > :38:41.Very influential in his life and he has already said he will give her a

:38:42. > :38:48.prominent role, perhaps as the real first Lady of France. Yes. This has

:38:49. > :38:55.been one of the things that people have been very interested in. His

:38:56. > :39:02.wife. He met her when he was a student, she was a drama teacher, 20

:39:03. > :39:06.years his senior, already married to someone else. He declared to her

:39:07. > :39:12.that he would want to marry her and he went through with that. That was

:39:13. > :39:16.against the wishes of both their families. They won them round. She

:39:17. > :39:24.married him and they have been together ever since. That has been a

:39:25. > :39:25.story he has drawn on in this presidential campaign to say

:39:26. > :39:29.determination he showed them he determination he showed them he

:39:30. > :39:34.would show again when he was seeking the presidency here. It has become

:39:35. > :39:37.part of his story. It will be a very interesting change for France if he

:39:38. > :39:44.does follow through and give his wife that first Lady role, that will

:39:45. > :39:54.he will bring along with many of the he will bring along with many of the

:39:55. > :40:00.other changes he proposes. Thank you. That is the picture down at the

:40:01. > :40:05.Louvre. We will cross shortly to where the camp of Marine Le Pen R.

:40:06. > :40:13.She is due to appear in front of them in the next half hour. Let's

:40:14. > :40:17.talk a bit about Marine Le Pen. 35% is probably just below where she

:40:18. > :40:24.wanted to be. I think they wanted 40%. How will the/ Al reacts, and is

:40:25. > :40:29.her position as leader secure? I think it is very disappointing for

:40:30. > :40:33.them. She was hoping for 40%. The end of the campaign was disastrous

:40:34. > :40:39.for them. The debate on Wednesday, everyone agrees was something that

:40:40. > :40:45.was a lot of voters off her, and what could have been a really

:40:46. > :40:52.significant vote at 40%, collapsed in the last few days to 35%. That

:40:53. > :40:55.said, she still has put on a lot of votes, she is above the 10 million

:40:56. > :40:59.vote mark which is the first time that has happened for the front

:41:00. > :41:08.National Al. Is there an alternative? I know there is not a

:41:09. > :41:15.happy party, the front Nationale. There are people who think the party

:41:16. > :41:21.should take other roads. We know her niece is very popular among a

:41:22. > :41:29.certain type of front Nationale voter. But I think what we have to

:41:30. > :41:34.say what she has done is remarkable and the end of the campaign showed

:41:35. > :41:37.the limits of the party's repositioning, they remain a party

:41:38. > :41:42.of protest, they came right to the brink of being a serious party and

:41:43. > :41:47.ruined it in the debate where she could do nothing but sound. She is

:41:48. > :41:59.speaking now. She is about to address her supporters.

:42:00. > :42:03.TRANSLATION: Hello citizens. Overseas, in France and abroad. The

:42:04. > :42:08.French people have chosen a new president for the Republic and they

:42:09. > :42:14.voted for continuity. I call Mr Macron to be congratulated on being

:42:15. > :42:18.elected and I believe in the main interest of the country and

:42:19. > :42:24.therefore I wish success to him in the face of the challenges that will

:42:25. > :42:28.face France, and I want to thank the 11 million French people who gave me

:42:29. > :42:31.their vote, and also the militants who supported me and were walking

:42:32. > :42:40.along by my side throughout the campaign. And I thank all the people

:42:41. > :42:44.who supported me in their very brave and courageous choice. Through that

:42:45. > :42:47.massive and historical choice the massive and historical choice the

:42:48. > :42:52.French chose the patriot and Republican Alliance as the main

:42:53. > :43:01.opposition to the project of that new president. The political parties

:43:02. > :43:05.that have chosen to vote for Macron are no longer legitimate to

:43:06. > :43:14.represent an alternative force or even a credible position. The first

:43:15. > :43:17.round showed that there was total decomposition of normal political

:43:18. > :43:22.French life and the second round is a recomposition rounds that division

:43:23. > :43:30.between patriots and globalists. It is that's choice that is going to be

:43:31. > :43:35.presented to the French during the legislative elections. I will be at

:43:36. > :43:42.the head of that battle to try to have a wider number of people to

:43:43. > :43:46.choose France, protect its independence, its freedom, is

:43:47. > :43:51.model, something that concerns asked model, something that concerns asked

:43:52. > :43:56.in the face of the perspective of this new five-year is. The Front

:43:57. > :44:06.National is committed in Alliance strategy to renew itself to be

:44:07. > :44:10.worthy of that historic situation. In the second round. Therefore I

:44:11. > :44:16.suggest we reorganise a art movement to set up a new political force what

:44:17. > :44:19.a lot of French people are asking for and what is all the more

:44:20. > :44:25.necessary for the reconstitution of the country. And all people were

:44:26. > :44:30.interested in the motherland, they must join us to be involved with us,

:44:31. > :44:35.because now more than ever France will need you. Long live the

:44:36. > :44:43.Republic and long live France! APPLAUSE

:44:44. > :44:47.So there is Marine Le Pen addressing her supporters. She has phoned

:44:48. > :44:51.Emmanuel Macron in the last few minutes to congratulate him. The

:44:52. > :44:58.French people, she said, have chosen the continuity candidate. She has

:44:59. > :45:01.made the point that he is a continuation of the policies of

:45:02. > :45:08.Francois Ilott. 11 million people voted for her. I want to put that in

:45:09. > :45:18.context. 4.8 million voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002. Looking

:45:19. > :45:21.at some of the reaction this evening, the person currently in

:45:22. > :45:28.charge says she has run a good campaign and it was a good result

:45:29. > :45:34.for the Front National. Apparently the UK Prime Minister has warmly

:45:35. > :45:37.congratulated President elect Macron congratulated President elect Macron

:45:38. > :45:51.on his success. We are also hearing the German Chancellor has tweeted in

:45:52. > :45:53.congratulation to Emmanuel Macron. The former partner of France were

:45:54. > :45:58.along and says Mr Macron's victory along and says Mr Macron's victory

:45:59. > :46:06.signals change in a political generation and signals some hope.

:46:07. > :46:17.Let's bring some guests back in. We have Sophie who was campaigning for

:46:18. > :46:26.Jean-Luc Melenchon on the hard left? Just left. Do you get a feeling for

:46:27. > :46:30.how they voted today? Think the figures you said earlier are clearly

:46:31. > :46:35.showing that Marine Le Pen is not gaining a lot from the first turn to

:46:36. > :46:41.the second term, she is gaining 12 points, which means it is mostly

:46:42. > :46:46.Francois Fillon's voters who drifted towards her, whereas the extension

:46:47. > :46:52.and the blank vote is very high will stop I think it has not been so high

:46:53. > :46:58.since 1969 or something like that. That could be a sign of our voters

:46:59. > :47:06.because I think a lot of people have voted for Macron to kick out Marine

:47:07. > :47:10.Le Pen but a big part of our population is a bit apathetic

:47:11. > :47:16.towards Macron's programmes. That is a signal. There is a political

:47:17. > :47:21.message there that will mean that the first day of Mr Macron, the

:47:22. > :47:32.first day of his ability to govern, there will be challenges and we have

:47:33. > :47:36.parliamentary elections. In that election, the duty for our candidate

:47:37. > :47:41.will be to bring some of the challenges that were completely

:47:42. > :47:46.absent from this campaign. For example, environmental issues. Not a

:47:47. > :47:51.single word in the final debate on Wednesday. It is the biggest threat

:47:52. > :47:56.on this planet, not a single word. When you put your supporters, the 7

:47:57. > :48:00.million people who voted for Jean-Luc Melenchon with those who

:48:01. > :48:04.voted for Marine Le Pen and the fringe candidates, nearly 50% of

:48:05. > :48:07.people have voted for a Eurosceptic candidates. There is a lot of

:48:08. > :48:11.celebration in Brussels tonight that Mr Macron has won but that is also

:48:12. > :48:16.tinged with the reality that a good many people here in France have

:48:17. > :48:22.serious reservations about the European Union project. It is a

:48:23. > :48:27.factor. Since 2005 when people voted against the constitutional treaty,

:48:28. > :48:33.and that boat in 2005, it was also put forward, supported by a big

:48:34. > :48:39.share of the left parties, including Jean-Luc Melenchon at the time. So

:48:40. > :48:46.being Eurosceptic, I understand this expression and especially I see it

:48:47. > :48:49.in British newspapers, but it does not have the same... Who is a

:48:50. > :48:54.Eurosceptic? Someone who has critical regard to what is happening

:48:55. > :48:58.in Europe? I think this is pretty healthy considering what is

:48:59. > :49:03.happening. I am afraid on the other hand that Macron will absolutely

:49:04. > :49:09.change nothing in Europe. If anything, make things worse

:49:10. > :49:14.actually. For example, the first meeting with Mrs Merkel, what will

:49:15. > :49:21.he say to her? I'm afraid he will be a new lap dog of this is Merkel.

:49:22. > :49:25.Very quickly, how many seats to expect to win in the upcoming

:49:26. > :49:30.elections and would your party work with annual Macron on some of his

:49:31. > :49:33.economic programmes? It is not a lottery so I am not going to give

:49:34. > :49:40.you figures, it is clearly too soon to say, but we will be in all 577

:49:41. > :49:46.constituencies for sure, and no, we will not be able to, especially not

:49:47. > :49:51.on the economy programme, because as you have seen, one of the first

:49:52. > :49:58.announcement of Mr Macron was to defend a new Labour reform, done by

:49:59. > :50:05.decree. So not asking the Parliament position and vote and debate and

:50:06. > :50:10.push it through, which was the one of the very reasons why a manual

:50:11. > :50:15.valves was rejected. Sophie, thank you. Let's go to the Marine Le Pen

:50:16. > :50:22.camp. James Reynolds is there for us. So Marine Le Pen conceding early

:50:23. > :50:26.this evening on those projections. They are overwhelmingly in favour of

:50:27. > :50:30.Emmanuel Macron. What will the Front National make of that result? They

:50:31. > :50:34.will have to look at it in the long term. They will have to measure

:50:35. > :50:40.their own progress election by-election, decade by decade. They

:50:41. > :50:47.started in 1974 with 0.74% of the vote. I think this will be complied

:50:48. > :50:53.with 2002. It looks like Marine Le Pen has by and large double her

:50:54. > :50:55.father's vote in 2002. This will be a source of optimism but I think

:50:56. > :51:00.there will be disappointment that they did not reach 40% of the vote.

:51:01. > :51:04.I don't think they can say they are one step away from winning the next

:51:05. > :51:09.election, there is clearly a lot more work to be done to persuade

:51:10. > :51:15.other parts of France that this party is electable. And of course

:51:16. > :51:18.they will go one, they will go on to the parliamentary elections in

:51:19. > :51:24.January, in fairly healthy form. They will want to take a number of

:51:25. > :51:31.seats in the Parliament. Yes, and they start from a meagre base. They

:51:32. > :51:34.have two MPs out of 577 in the National Assembly. In some ways, the

:51:35. > :51:40.only way for them is up, but it does give a sense of the amount of work

:51:41. > :51:43.that Marine Le Pen has to do in order to make sure that her party

:51:44. > :51:48.becomes the opposition force she wants it to become. You cannot say

:51:49. > :51:52.you are the main opposition party if you have only got two MPs. Yes, just

:51:53. > :51:59.looking at some of the other polls as we talk to, we have another one,

:52:00. > :52:06.pretty similar to the one we have been showing you from Kantar Public,

:52:07. > :52:16.61% for Macron and 34 for Marine Le Pen. There is another one which has

:52:17. > :52:28.Mr Macron on 65.9% and slip N on 34.9%. They are all pretty much of a

:52:29. > :52:31.muchness. They have Mr Macron ahead. When you compare the 11 million

:52:32. > :52:38.votes that the Front National got in this round with the 4.8 her father

:52:39. > :52:45.got back in 2002, it does show how the party is performing over the

:52:46. > :52:50.long-term? That is their point. They are a movement which measures their

:52:51. > :52:55.progress in decades, not single elections. They got up to 18% in

:52:56. > :52:59.2002, now they are up to the mid-30s. It is not as much as they

:53:00. > :53:04.would have wanted this time around, but they would say look at the

:53:05. > :53:07.long-term trajectory. Look at how they are increasing their vote. They

:53:08. > :53:12.would also be pleased by the amount of legitimacy they have had. For

:53:13. > :53:20.years theirs was a fringe movement. A lot of parts of France boycotted

:53:21. > :53:23.them, ignored them. With nearly 35% of the vote now they will say they

:53:24. > :53:26.can no longer be ignored. The question is whether Marine Le Pen

:53:27. > :53:29.can turn to her own supporters and say we are one stop away from

:53:30. > :53:38.winning the next election. It is hard that someone who got 34% of the

:53:39. > :53:42.vote can say that. Thank you. Dominique Moisi, I was talking about

:53:43. > :53:47.the long game for the Front National. Are you in disagreement

:53:48. > :53:52.with that? It may be the peak of their political life. It all depends

:53:53. > :53:58.on what happens in the next five years. If there are results, if

:53:59. > :54:05.unemployment comes down, they will do less in five years from now. It

:54:06. > :54:09.is the responsibility of Emmanuel Macron. From that standpoint, it

:54:10. > :54:17.gives us an understanding of what happened tonight. Hope prevailed

:54:18. > :54:22.over anger, with a little bit of help of fear. A lot of people voted

:54:23. > :54:28.for Macron because they were scared, they got scared at the very end of

:54:29. > :54:34.Marine Le Pen revealing the old nature of her party in the debate.

:54:35. > :54:38.But she has, some would say, detoxified the brand somewhat. She

:54:39. > :54:42.has got rid of some of the anti-Semitism and the nasty elements

:54:43. > :54:48.of the party, some would say they are still there but it has become an

:54:49. > :54:51.electable force. If you look at what happened in 2002, the left grabbed

:54:52. > :54:55.its nose and voted for Jacques Chirac even though they'd not like

:54:56. > :55:01.him, this time not so many people felt inclined to vote against her?

:55:02. > :55:05.That is true but the situation has greatly changed. I am not sure the

:55:06. > :55:11.DNA of the National Front has changed. In fact, in the debate, she

:55:12. > :55:16.was her father. There was a brutality, a roster city that

:55:17. > :55:23.destroyed all the efforts she made during the last five years to appear

:55:24. > :55:27.more acceptable. The same could be true of Jean-Luc Melenchon, maybe

:55:28. > :55:32.this is the high point for him? He is getting on. He performed

:55:33. > :55:36.brilliantly in the election, he took 7 million votes, but what happens to

:55:37. > :55:40.the movement over the next five years? There is a big difference

:55:41. > :55:45.also with Marine Le Pen. We will enter the National Assembly for the

:55:46. > :55:52.first time in reality, so we will be for the first time, in a position to

:55:53. > :56:01.draft new laws and so on. Of course, Jean-Luc Melenchon is not an eternal

:56:02. > :56:06.man, his time will come, but we have the new generation ready as you

:56:07. > :56:10.might have seen in the figures. We are the third political party in

:56:11. > :56:15.terms of use and support. The new generation is there and the future

:56:16. > :56:22.stands with us. It is a factual stance. And what he was saying, for

:56:23. > :56:31.the front Nationale, it is in their DNA to be fascist. You have someone

:56:32. > :56:39.like the general secretary who said the gas chamber was like some kind

:56:40. > :56:44.of detail in history, not really sure it existed or something like

:56:45. > :56:49.that. It is proof that behind there, it exists. Now all the eternal

:56:50. > :56:59.divisions that Marine Le Pen was able to federate all these people,

:57:00. > :57:03.especially to support him. Now all the internal divisions will surface.

:57:04. > :57:08.It will not suffice for Mr Macron to be more of the same. She got well

:57:09. > :57:14.over 10,000 villages and town halls who voted for the far right, who

:57:15. > :57:19.voted for something different. It means there is a level of despair

:57:20. > :57:26.and anger that is there, that has been expressed in the election, and

:57:27. > :57:33.the problem for Emmanuel Macron, as the new president, is to answer, to

:57:34. > :57:38.find answers to that anger and that despair. That is pretty much about

:57:39. > :57:43.jobs, 5 million people without a job, one in four people under the

:57:44. > :57:48.age of 25 without a full-time job, it is about getting people into

:57:49. > :57:54.employment? It starts with jobs but it goes much deeper. It requires

:57:55. > :58:00.consideration, a sense of eternity, meaning that the state takes care of

:58:01. > :58:07.these people, realises they exist. They are not in a kind of bubble

:58:08. > :58:12.above them and far from them. I agree with you on this point. The

:58:13. > :58:16.only disagreement we have is I don't think Mr Macron represents that

:58:17. > :58:20.changing reality. He was going to apply the old same recipe and the

:58:21. > :58:25.deregulation programme, the agenda he has in terms of the economy and

:58:26. > :58:32.Labour reform will be very violent to people. I think it is just a

:58:33. > :58:36.matter of weeks really to see huge mobilisation, OK, his first few

:58:37. > :58:41.reforms will be good PR, he is always doing a good communication

:58:42. > :58:47.campaign, he will change slightly his government, the government with

:58:48. > :58:51.new faces, a lot of new faces, a lot of women and so on, and then we will

:58:52. > :58:56.start the big business. When he was the economy minister he brought in

:58:57. > :59:00.something which would liberate certain sectors of the French

:59:01. > :59:04.economy and people came out in their thousands to block it and he was

:59:05. > :59:08.forced to water it down, what will be different when he brings out his

:59:09. > :59:14.liberalising agenda in the months ahead? He is the president now. He

:59:15. > :59:19.has been elected with a sizeable majority. He has been carried to

:59:20. > :59:23.power with a sense of elation and hope for many, fear and despair for

:59:24. > :59:29.others. This is where we disagree fundamentally. I think it can

:59:30. > :59:32.succeed and I hope deeply for my country without any ideological

:59:33. > :59:36.vision that he will succeed, that it is not a matter of principle or

:59:37. > :59:42.whatever, he can do it. Because other countries in Europe have done

:59:43. > :59:48.it. Is it about him doing it, or is it about the French accept in

:59:49. > :59:52.change? Spending, for instance, government spending has risen over

:59:53. > :00:00.the last ten years from 51 to 57%. The public sector is bloated. The

:00:01. > :00:02.sort of reforms he is putting forward were a pale imitation of the

:00:03. > :00:10.reforms Francois Fillon was putting forward?

:00:11. > :00:19.Coming from a German version, it is understandable for them, but when

:00:20. > :00:23.you are talking about public services we have a massive

:00:24. > :00:31.regeneration of our country, we need more employment, more public input,

:00:32. > :00:39.more jobs in public services, more schools, more hospitals... More

:00:40. > :00:41.spending will bring more... You are the highest spenders in the world!

:00:42. > :00:49.It will bring more revenue in the end. What Macron was to do is what

:00:50. > :00:57.Mr Ronald has been doing. We have more unemployment. 9 million poor

:00:58. > :01:08.people in this country. The same goes for Germany. Why do you have

:01:09. > :01:16.anti-European movements so high now? There is a recipe that does not

:01:17. > :01:20.work. Just to reply to you on one point, the extreme right in Germany

:01:21. > :01:29.is decreasing significantly. There is a Macron maniac impact as their

:01:30. > :01:35.is one in Italy with the rebirth of Matteo Darmian say. So from that

:01:36. > :01:39.stamp point I think he is the right middle ground. Frost while Fillon

:01:40. > :01:45.was too extreme, to brutal in his approach. But what he was to do he

:01:46. > :01:54.can do by doing it moderately. We will come back to this. The great

:01:55. > :01:57.pretender in Italy did not get onto well. Emmanuel Macron, the

:01:58. > :02:06.39-year-old from the centre-left, projected to get 65.5% of the vote,

:02:07. > :02:12.in comparison to 34.5% for the far right candidate Marine Le Pen. These

:02:13. > :02:17.were compiled by the Kantar polling company. They are samples of actual

:02:18. > :02:23.votes as the public cast their ballots earlier today. A short time

:02:24. > :02:27.ago, the front National Mall leader conceded defeat. She made a short

:02:28. > :02:33.phone call to Macron and said this time the French people had chosen

:02:34. > :02:35.continuity. TRANSLATION: The French people have

:02:36. > :02:43.chosen a new president for the Republican big voted for continuity.

:02:44. > :02:48.I phoned him to congratulate him on being elected and I believe in the

:02:49. > :02:52.main interest of the country and therefore I wished success to him in

:02:53. > :02:55.the face of the challenges that face France and I want to thank the 11

:02:56. > :03:00.million French people that gave me their vote. Through that massive and

:03:01. > :03:06.the Patriot and Republican Alliance the Patriot and Republican Alliance

:03:07. > :03:13.as the main opposition to the project of that new president. The

:03:14. > :03:18.political parties that have chosen to vote for Macron are no longer

:03:19. > :03:24.legitimate to represent an alternative force or even a credible

:03:25. > :03:32.opposition. The first round showed that there was total decomposition

:03:33. > :03:36.of normal political French life and the second round is a recomposition

:03:37. > :03:44.round, that division between patriots and globalists. A fairly

:03:45. > :03:48.downbeat mood then at the le Pen camp this evening. Let's quickly

:03:49. > :03:53.show you the pictures down at Toulouse, where they are gearing up

:03:54. > :04:01.for a big party this evening. -- at the Louvre. This is where Macron

:04:02. > :04:05.will address the public later. You can see there are bands on the stage

:04:06. > :04:10.warming up the crowd. I don't think they will need much warming up. You

:04:11. > :04:15.can see the French flag flying high and people driving around the Arctic

:04:16. > :04:21.tree on the hind asks sounding their horns. Lots of people in Paris very

:04:22. > :04:24.voted for Marine Le Pen in the first voted for Marine Le Pen in the first

:04:25. > :04:31.round. Let's find out what the mood is like in Bordeaux, where Alan

:04:32. > :04:39.should pay is the mouth. What has been the reaction there? There were

:04:40. > :04:44.people standing in here cheering as that result came in on the

:04:45. > :04:51.television of projections for Macron to be the next president of France.

:04:52. > :04:56.With me I have deputy head of the Macron campaign called En Marche! .

:04:57. > :05:04.Could you have dreams of this when you're ago? One year ago when the

:05:05. > :05:07.movement started, I would never have dreams that that kind of trajectory,

:05:08. > :05:15.which was very good, it was a dream, yeah. What about the figures. We are

:05:16. > :05:22.looking at approximately 65% to perhaps 34 plus and. Are you happy

:05:23. > :05:29.with that? I am very happy with it. We were very worried with the angry

:05:30. > :05:35.feelings of some French who wanted not to vote at all. So we are very

:05:36. > :05:45.glad that Emmanuel Macron is elected with a big figure of 65%. It is a

:05:46. > :05:49.good school. But still the 34%, that is the strongest showing there has

:05:50. > :05:55.been for the Front National. There are so many people that don't want

:05:56. > :06:01.Emmanuel Macron to be the leader or don't agree with his policies, how

:06:02. > :06:06.can he overcome that? We are conscious that lots of people

:06:07. > :06:13.haven't voted for Emmanuel Macron. Others voted for him but are not

:06:14. > :06:21.very convinced by the platform. So the first big challenge he will have

:06:22. > :06:27.two face is to reconciliation French society. Bordeaux is when the town,

:06:28. > :06:33.it is not suffering from some of the issues other pounds of France are,

:06:34. > :06:38.what you think his biggest challenge is for this region? I think it is

:06:39. > :06:44.quite the same in the country. On one side you have the countryside

:06:45. > :06:49.and the other you have big cities. People from the countryside often

:06:50. > :06:53.feel excluded from the progress and the dynamics of economic 's, and

:06:54. > :07:02.then I guess the big challenge will be to reconciliation is everybody

:07:03. > :07:07.and make a big force for France to be united from the countryside and

:07:08. > :07:14.the big cities for people to feel together, and feel French and feel

:07:15. > :07:19.together. A year ago people might have expected the mail of this city

:07:20. > :07:25.to be perhaps the next president. We are here in his town hall, he is

:07:26. > :07:29.going to give a speech, but we are looking at somebody who has never

:07:30. > :07:36.been elected before. 39 years of age. Are you concerned about his

:07:37. > :07:42.inexperience? I feel his age is a good thing for France and one thing

:07:43. > :07:49.the election this campaign has shown is people want change. They want

:07:50. > :07:53.change and they don't want any more traditional parties, and for me the

:07:54. > :08:02.young mess of Emmanuel Macron is a good thing and shows that we can

:08:03. > :08:08.progress towards a new way. Some would say change brings a lot of

:08:09. > :08:15.risks. And it can be dangerous. At such a particular time for France, a

:08:16. > :08:19.state of emergency since 2015, unemployment at 10%, does that seem

:08:20. > :08:23.to match the one person to be able to conquer? It is not just one

:08:24. > :08:33.him. I guess that the platform of him. I guess that the platform of

:08:34. > :08:38.Emmanuel Macron is well-balanced and it is not very risky. He has a big,

:08:39. > :08:48.great platform for unemployment, against unemployment, he has big

:08:49. > :08:52.projects also for the economy and so I guess it is not very risky. We

:08:53. > :08:58.have everything to win with this platform. One woman who is very

:08:59. > :09:04.happy. Thank you very much on Catherine. Some random members of

:09:05. > :09:08.the public are counting of ballots. I know we have these projections,

:09:09. > :09:15.but votes are being counted just next door to hear. You can get more

:09:16. > :09:21.later from Bordeaux. Thank you. It is interesting, because usually the

:09:22. > :09:24.publicans and the Socialists do the counting but because they were

:09:25. > :09:28.eliminated in the first round they did not turn up to count. So they

:09:29. > :09:32.have been short of people to count in polling stations around the

:09:33. > :09:42.country. Here are some messages from people speaking to Macron. The

:09:43. > :09:47.outgoing presidents, whose approval rating is at 14%, deeply unpopular,

:09:48. > :09:50.he says, all my wishes for the country's success. And also the

:09:51. > :09:53.former Prime Minister, who really former Prime Minister, who really

:09:54. > :09:58.counts himself as a social democrat rather than a man of the hard left,

:09:59. > :10:04.he says, we are aiming at building a large and cohesive presidential

:10:05. > :10:08.majority in parliament. I salute a beautiful large victory for Emmanuel

:10:09. > :10:13.Macron. A lot of people have been inspected later in whether he might

:10:14. > :10:20.go over to En Marche!, might stand for them or at least align himself

:10:21. > :10:24.with them. Just one other to give you, the Republican's vice

:10:25. > :10:28.president, says Emmanuelle Macron is president this evening through no

:10:29. > :10:33.real desire or enthusiasm. For the rightness is no time for resigning

:10:34. > :10:40.or compromising. Change in power is still possible. The are putting up

:10:41. > :10:50.putting up a fierce fight. Let me reintroduce you to the

:10:51. > :10:56.representative from Konta public. Your reaction? There is a little

:10:57. > :11:04.relief official but at the same time I can't help but think that 11 and a

:11:05. > :11:10.half million people voted for Marine Le Pen, twice as many as when her

:11:11. > :11:14.father ran for president, that means many French people support that kind

:11:15. > :11:21.of idea. At the same time Marine Le Pen said she would reframe her

:11:22. > :11:25.party. She has been working on mainstreaming her party for years

:11:26. > :11:35.and now she is going further, meaning she will settle her party

:11:36. > :11:40.into the French republic. Now the France not an alp has deep roots

:11:41. > :11:45.into the French landscape. Emmanuel Macron said tonight this was of

:11:46. > :11:48.victory over hate, a victory for hope and optimism. Do you detect

:11:49. > :11:57.some of that hope and optimism among those who did not vote? No. I have

:11:58. > :12:02.seen many people voting for Emmanuel Macron without any enthusiasm. It is

:12:03. > :12:10.funny for him to say here is the face of China which, he was -- the

:12:11. > :12:14.face of change, because he was part of the old system and is not

:12:15. > :12:18.proposing anything radically new. Many people are tired of seeing

:12:19. > :12:23.people coming from the same school, raised in the same system, they are

:12:24. > :12:27.willing to see people changing the face of... He is changing the face

:12:28. > :12:34.but only on the surface. When you go out polling people, do you detect

:12:35. > :12:38.that people don't really know what Emmanuel Macron stands for? A lot of

:12:39. > :12:43.people have said his platform has been pretty vague, maybe

:12:44. > :12:51.intentionally. I think Rob Lee also that explains that only 36% of the

:12:52. > :12:59.French people are believing in his programme, which will raise problems

:13:00. > :13:03.afterwards. I think what you just talked about optimism and pessimism

:13:04. > :13:10.is true because actually there are a big selection, a sort of x-ray, for

:13:11. > :13:17.the French society, and there are many divided lines. When we see our

:13:18. > :13:24.polling surveys at Kantar Public, this is when people between future

:13:25. > :13:29.prospects, people that are able to project themselves into the future,

:13:30. > :13:38.project their children in the future and the others. You have of course

:13:39. > :13:45.differences between workers and cultural professionals, etc, between

:13:46. > :13:52.high and low incomes, but mostly this is about future prospects. This

:13:53. > :13:56.is about emotion less than a programme. Now I think he will have

:13:57. > :14:01.to prove also that he substantially has something to bring to the

:14:02. > :14:06.society and it will be hard. And that is the point. When you look at

:14:07. > :14:09.the first round vote, nine of the ten districts with the highest

:14:10. > :14:13.unemployment rates in the country went to Marine Le Pen. There is a

:14:14. > :14:20.direct correlation between unemployment and the France that NL.

:14:21. > :14:24.Despair and the feeling that the system does not support a large part

:14:25. > :14:28.of the population. We need to think about the fact that Macron was not

:14:29. > :14:32.supported by people who were enthusiastic. Half of the people who

:14:33. > :14:40.voted for him did so to prevent Marine Le Pen from being elected. It

:14:41. > :14:45.was not the highest conviction or sentiments that would bring someone

:14:46. > :14:51.new to the chair. It was not like the first election of Barack Obama.

:14:52. > :14:58.It was to do something for someone that would prevent is. I think many

:14:59. > :15:03.people went to demonstrate last year because of many of the policies that

:15:04. > :15:09.Macron supported in the Government. He will need to face those people

:15:10. > :15:14.because according what he sounds to be likely to propose, many people

:15:15. > :15:18.will be angry and he will have to face them in the streets and that is

:15:19. > :15:23.his next challenge. You are also a civil rights activist. I had an

:15:24. > :15:28.interesting conversation with a taxi driver. He was Algerian. He was

:15:29. > :15:33.telling me he does not feel French or Algerian, but stuck in the

:15:34. > :15:37.middle. In the tenement building he lives in everybody is Algerian. He

:15:38. > :15:41.says nobody feels like voting for either candidate. They feel totally

:15:42. > :15:47.cut off from French society. That is a story we have heard time and again

:15:48. > :15:51.since 2005 and the riots then, from people who live in that area. When

:15:52. > :15:53.to get a grip of the situation and to get a grip of the situation and

:15:54. > :16:06.sort out the divisions? I think there is a systemic racism

:16:07. > :16:11.which needs to be addressed. I have not been hearing anyone address it.

:16:12. > :16:15.If you are black or Arab and young you are 20 times more likely to be

:16:16. > :16:21.checked by the police. Now with their sense of urgency it has the

:16:22. > :16:25.strongest meaning. We need to have politicians who take that into

:16:26. > :16:30.account. We need policies to make sure everyone in the population,

:16:31. > :16:37.whether you are black, Arab or Asian, you feel French, you have the

:16:38. > :16:45.feeling that your life matters as much as the other lives. When he

:16:46. > :16:50.talks about a renewal in French politics, is there an appetite for

:16:51. > :16:54.this national debate on you say the racism that there is in French

:16:55. > :17:00.society, certainly getting into the divisions in the suburbs of the big

:17:01. > :17:03.cities? I think we need to face our history because France is a

:17:04. > :17:11.democratic country and it is something which is part of our

:17:12. > :17:18.history, but whenever you see any major, it is male white people. It

:17:19. > :17:22.is something which needs to be addressed and something that needs

:17:23. > :17:29.to be displayed. Everyone needs the feeling of belonging and that is

:17:30. > :17:37.something which needs to be tackled. Do you have figures about this

:17:38. > :17:45.issue? I think French people are expecting big changes when it comes

:17:46. > :17:54.to creating diversity in the political landscape. This was also

:17:55. > :17:58.promises coming from the left. This was the difference between the two

:17:59. > :18:03.populism we have in this election, between the right populism, really

:18:04. > :18:10.Nationale stick, and the populism from the left which is more around

:18:11. > :18:17.diversity and multiculturalism. I think this is something which is put

:18:18. > :18:22.on the table right now and needs to be addressed. Well, there will be

:18:23. > :18:27.many people in that society who will be very pleased that Marine Le Pen

:18:28. > :18:34.has been defeated in this election. She was quick to concede to Emmanuel

:18:35. > :18:38.Macron. James Reynolds has been where Marine Le Pen is spending her

:18:39. > :18:42.evening and he had this reaction as the projections came out. They will

:18:43. > :18:48.have to look at it in the long term. They will have to measure their

:18:49. > :18:57.progress and election by-election, decade by decade. They started in

:18:58. > :19:01.1974 with 0.74% of the vote. In 2002 Jean-Marie Le Pen got 18% of the

:19:02. > :19:05.vote. It looks like Marine Le Pen has by and large double her father's

:19:06. > :19:08.vote. That is a source of optimism but I think there will be a

:19:09. > :19:13.disappointment that they did not reach 40% of the vote. I did think

:19:14. > :19:17.they can quite say they are one step away from winning the next election.

:19:18. > :19:21.There is clearly a lot more work to be done to persuade the other part

:19:22. > :19:26.of France that this party is electable. And they will go one to

:19:27. > :19:32.the parliamentary elections in January in fairly healthy form. They

:19:33. > :19:39.will want to take a number of seats in the parliament? Yes, and they

:19:40. > :19:45.start from a meagre base. They have two MPs out of 577 in the National

:19:46. > :19:49.Assembly. In some ways, the only way for them is up. It does give you a

:19:50. > :19:54.sense of the amount of work that Marine Le Pen has to do in order to

:19:55. > :19:57.make sure that the Front National becomes the opposition force she

:19:58. > :20:03.wants it to become. You cannot say you are the main opposition party if

:20:04. > :20:08.you only have two MPs. Just looking at some of the other polls as we

:20:09. > :20:12.talk to, we have one which is pretty similar to the one we have been

:20:13. > :20:24.showing you from Kantar Public. 65% for Mr Macron and 34 for Mrs the

:20:25. > :20:34.pen. -- Marine Le Pen. Another one has Mr Macron on 65.1% and my down

:20:35. > :20:39.Le Pen on 34.9%. They are all pretty much of a muchness. Really the Front

:20:40. > :20:42.National would have wanted to hit 40%, but when you compare the 11

:20:43. > :20:49.million votes that the Front National got in this boat with a 4.8

:20:50. > :20:55.her father got in 2002, it does show how the party is performing over the

:20:56. > :21:00.long-term? And I think that is their point. They are a movement which

:21:01. > :21:07.measures their progress in decades, not single elections. They started

:21:08. > :21:14.at 0.74%, they got up to 18% in 2002 and they are up to the mid-30s. They

:21:15. > :21:18.will say look at the long-term trajectory, look at how they are

:21:19. > :21:23.increasing their vote. They will also be pleased by the amount of

:21:24. > :21:28.legitimacy they have. They're in mind it was a fringe movement. A lot

:21:29. > :21:32.of parts of France boycotted them and ignored them. I think they will

:21:33. > :21:36.now feel they can no longer be ignored. The question is whether

:21:37. > :21:40.Marine Le Pen can turn to her own supporters say we are one step away

:21:41. > :21:47.from winning the next election. It is hard to think that someone who

:21:48. > :21:50.got 34% of the vote can say that. James Reynolds there at Marine Le

:21:51. > :21:55.Pen's headquarters. Let's take you back to the moment when it was

:21:56. > :22:00.confirmed that Emmanuel Macron was confirmed as president. This is how

:22:01. > :22:04.his supporters reacted when the figures flashed up on the screen.

:22:05. > :22:21.CHEERING An anxious moment perhaps. They've

:22:22. > :22:26.perhaps knew they were lucky to be celebrating but you can see the

:22:27. > :22:32.pure, unadulterated joy there. It was an unprecedented election with

:22:33. > :22:34.none of the candidates from the two major parties. It was a campaign

:22:35. > :22:54.with twists and turns. TRANSLATION: They are trying to

:22:55. > :22:59.oppose the -- impose the full veil, prayer in the streets, the

:23:00. > :23:17.submission of winning, a ban on skirts, banned from work.

:23:18. > :23:23.TRANSLATION: I have decided I will not be a candidate in the

:23:24. > :24:53.presidential election, nor will I seek a new mandate as president.

:24:54. > :24:58.Because of how important this election is, I also want you to know

:24:59. > :25:10.that I am supporting Emmanuel Macron to lead you forward. En Marche, vive

:25:11. > :25:14.le France. It has at times been bitterly contested and I am not sure

:25:15. > :25:21.it has gone the way of healing the divisions in France. I guess we will

:25:22. > :25:26.see in June when all parties contest 577 seats in parliament. Emmanuel

:25:27. > :25:29.Macron will need a majority or a least a cohesive coalition in the

:25:30. > :25:34.parliament in order to force through the platform that he has put

:25:35. > :25:43.forward. With me on the balcony is Rokhaya Diallo a journalist and

:25:44. > :25:45.civil rights activist and Guenaelle Gault from Kantar Public. We are

:25:46. > :25:51.going to talk later at ten o'clock about a poll you have been holding

:25:52. > :25:54.back. You will tantalise us with a poll on the parliamentary elections

:25:55. > :26:00.which might give us what, a clue about which way the country will go?

:26:01. > :26:06.Probably, this is now the new challenge for Emmanuel Macron. We

:26:07. > :26:13.need to be in mind that there will be a third round. Crucially

:26:14. > :26:20.important? Once again he may not be in a position to govern, despite the

:26:21. > :26:27.fact he is president. There are four phases. The first one is a majority.

:26:28. > :26:34.We will know more about that. The second one is a coalition a bit like

:26:35. > :26:41.Angela Merkel and the third one is a coalition but depending on the

:26:42. > :26:46.ideas, projects etc and those two are not at all in our culture as

:26:47. > :26:53.French people, and the first one, this is accreditation. We have had

:26:54. > :26:58.right-wing Prime Minister is, and left-wing presidents and vice versa.

:26:59. > :27:05.We have had this three times. It sits well the French people, less

:27:06. > :27:09.the politicians! It works well, a grand coalition? Once again it is

:27:10. > :27:16.not exactly in our culture, but why not? It was not in our culture to

:27:17. > :27:20.get a very young president so... I would say the coalition worked

:27:21. > :27:25.rather well in the UK when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats

:27:26. > :27:29.came together. What is fascinating about the Macron movement, I keep

:27:30. > :27:33.wanting to call it a party, but it is a movement, it is how it has

:27:34. > :27:36.grown from the grassroots. One campaign manager said they had

:27:37. > :27:42.brought in a company which worked for President Obama and they asked

:27:43. > :27:46.people for just ten, 20, 50 euros contributions. From that they have

:27:47. > :27:54.been able to spark an incredible movement of young people. There was

:27:55. > :27:57.that but there was also the fascination of the media which made

:27:58. > :28:01.Emmanuel Macron very visible in the mainstream media. He made Slimani

:28:02. > :28:05.covers of newspapers and magazines. He really entered into the French

:28:06. > :28:13.imagination very quickly. Many people who voted for him, many young

:28:14. > :28:17.people, because he had in contrary to the other candidates, very

:28:18. > :28:22.positive speech, positive discourse. Even if I don't really know what he

:28:23. > :28:25.stands for. It is very vague. You had many people who supported him

:28:26. > :28:35.but without really knowing what they would get. He had support from other

:28:36. > :28:41.candidates. It is difficult to see how he will govern because we have

:28:42. > :28:47.four different hypotheses. We will go to James Reynolds shortly but

:28:48. > :28:52.there was no pretence at fairness in the media in this second round. They

:28:53. > :28:56.ganged up behind Emmanuel Macron, do you have a problem with that as a

:28:57. > :29:00.journalist? People point to the Front National as a fascist party

:29:01. > :29:09.and we can have a debate about that, but there was no pretence at

:29:10. > :29:12.fairness, was there? I think it is important to remind people of the

:29:13. > :29:17.roots of the Front National. Marine Le Pen had been cleaning up the

:29:18. > :29:22.history of the party but we have to remind people that there were people

:29:23. > :29:26.related to neo-Nazis. At the same time, the relationship we Marine Le

:29:27. > :29:30.Pen and journalists is important to focus on. She has been many time

:29:31. > :29:37.revoking many journalists and not allowing them to cover the stories

:29:38. > :29:42.from her HQ and that means she is not really supporting the freedom of

:29:43. > :29:47.the press. We have seen many journalists have been kicked out of

:29:48. > :29:49.the HQ of Marine Le Pen and she wanted to pick the journalists who

:29:50. > :30:00.would follow her. OK, thank you. We have a special results programme

:30:01. > :30:04.now from Paris on the second round of the presidential election.

:30:05. > :30:08.Emmanuel Macron will become the next president at the age of 39, he is

:30:09. > :30:35.just about to speak. Let's see what he's saying.

:30:36. > :30:44.Well actually he's not speaking, what you're actually watching is a

:30:45. > :30:47.rather peculiar backroom view of his headquarters. I told you he's going

:30:48. > :30:56.to make a speech, a more sombre speech before he went to the Louvre

:30:57. > :31:00.for a celebration with his supporters. These are pictures from

:31:01. > :31:04.outside his HQ. We will dip into his speech. He clearly betting on the

:31:05. > :31:13.powder and preparing speak any second now. James Reynolds I think

:31:14. > :31:20.is at Marine Le Pen's headquarters. If we need to interrupt James

:31:21. > :31:23.Weighell. We were just talking about this treatment of Marine Le Pen in

:31:24. > :31:28.the mainstream media in France and I made the point, and she's made it

:31:29. > :31:32.many times that there was no real pretence of fairness about how she

:31:33. > :31:38.was covered -- James Reynolds. What are they saying at the pen

:31:39. > :31:49.headquarters? Much the same thing. The media may say that the coverage

:31:50. > :31:55.was fair but the media in the second round have been accused of peddling

:31:56. > :31:59.propaganda against Le Pen Sochi has not got her message. That is a

:32:00. > :32:04.message that a lot of the supporters of the party have said. The media

:32:05. > :32:09.have said they were simply investigating the policies of the

:32:10. > :32:19.Front National. Seeing whether what it is saying now stood up to what it

:32:20. > :32:22.has said in the past. We're just watching the French television

:32:23. > :32:28.because we're waiting for Emmanuel Macron to appear. As we wait for

:32:29. > :32:34.him, Marine Le Pen obviously had some idea that this wasn't going to

:32:35. > :32:37.be her victory tonight because the party at Marine Le Pen headquarters

:32:38. > :32:42.was to be brought to a close at 10pm, so they obviously had a spear

:32:43. > :32:50.through the day that it wasn't going their way? This is a small venue. If

:32:51. > :32:53.you were looking for a venue in which to hold a medium-sized

:32:54. > :32:58.wedding, this is where you would come. It isn't a huge campaign venue

:32:59. > :33:01.at all. So when we got here, the smallness of the venue gave an

:33:02. > :33:06.indication of what the campaign was thinking. They put out several dozen

:33:07. > :33:13.supporters in front of Marine Le Pen and on the stroke of the results

:33:14. > :33:18.being predicted, they were booing. She gave a speech but it was an

:33:19. > :33:21.important speech, talking about transforming the movement. I spoke

:33:22. > :33:25.to a senior official who said that it would be a new party under a new

:33:26. > :33:32.name but with many of the same ideas. I said that if it is the same

:33:33. > :33:37.party it is the same ideas but he said others would join them. They

:33:38. > :33:41.must reflect on this, is 35% good enough? They may have wanted 40% to

:33:42. > :33:46.make sure she is unequivocally the opposition leader. Is 35% enough to

:33:47. > :33:52.say you are the opposition leader to put you one step away from the 2022

:33:53. > :33:57.election? We'll have to find out. That's an interesting thought. She's

:33:58. > :34:04.had a very public row with her father, D Marine Le Pen, saying that

:34:05. > :34:13.she hasn't run a very good campaign -- Jean-Marie Le Pen. She is saying

:34:14. > :34:17.that she doubled his vote in 2002. He barely increased the Front

:34:18. > :34:21.National's vote in the second round but she doubled that this time and

:34:22. > :34:25.this is what they are clinging onto, saying yes, it is a loss but it is a

:34:26. > :34:31.success because they have doubled the second round performance and

:34:32. > :34:36.from their point of view they have smashed the Republican front by

:34:37. > :34:39.which the other parties would unite against the National Front. They

:34:40. > :34:47.believe they have put a crack in that tonight. I am just keeping and

:34:48. > :34:53.I on the projector down here because Emmanuel Macron is going to talk and

:34:54. > :34:58.we want to bring in his speech. He seems to be rehearsing at the

:34:59. > :35:02.moment. We'll just remind you of the projections we've had, pretty

:35:03. > :35:11.convincing. According to the projections we've seen, 65%, Macron,

:35:12. > :35:15.and Marine Le Pen, 34%. TRANSLATION: Gratitude, it is a great honour and

:35:16. > :35:19.a great responsibility because nothing was written in advance and I

:35:20. > :35:26.would like to say thank you to you, thank you from the bottom of my

:35:27. > :35:32.heart. My gratitude is for those of you who voted for me and supported

:35:33. > :35:36.me. I will never for get you. I will put all my efforts, all my care to

:35:37. > :35:45.be worthy of the trust you put in me. But it is to all of you, the

:35:46. > :35:50.citizens of my country, that I wish to speak, whatever your choice.

:35:51. > :35:54.There were lots of problems that made us weak for too long and I'm

:35:55. > :35:59.aware of all of them, economic difficulties, social problems,

:36:00. > :36:07.democratic difficulties, the moral weakness of the country. And

:36:08. > :36:20.tonight, I want to tell you in the Republican spirit, Marine Le Pen was

:36:21. > :36:26.my adversary. I know... I note the rage, the society, the doubt that

:36:27. > :36:32.many of you expressed. It is under my responsibility to hear them and

:36:33. > :36:38.to protect the weakest and to organise solidarity and fighting

:36:39. > :36:42.against any form of discrimination and inequality and making sure in a

:36:43. > :36:48.resolute way that your security will be guaranteed. And I will also

:36:49. > :36:54.guarantee the unity of the nation. Because behind the words I've just

:36:55. > :36:57.pronounced I know full well that there are faces, there are men and

:36:58. > :37:03.women and children, there are families, their whole lives and

:37:04. > :37:07.behind that, it is you and all the people around you. Tonight, it's to

:37:08. > :37:12.all of you that I'm speaking. Because altogether, you make up the

:37:13. > :37:22.population of France and we have a duty in relation to our country, we

:37:23. > :37:26.are the heirs of a grand history with a humanistic message to the

:37:27. > :37:31.world, it is our duty to pass it on to our children first but also, more

:37:32. > :37:38.important, we have to carry it into the future. We've got to give it new

:37:39. > :37:42.blood. And I will protect and defend France, its vital interests, its

:37:43. > :37:49.image, its message, it's a commitment I take before you. I will

:37:50. > :37:55.defend and protect Europe, the common destiny that the people on

:37:56. > :37:59.our continent have voted upon. Our way of living, of being free, of

:38:00. > :38:06.carrying together our enterprises and hopes. And I want to make

:38:07. > :38:11.stronger the link between Europe and the countries and government that

:38:12. > :38:16.make Europe and its citizens. To all of the nations of the world, I give

:38:17. > :38:20.the salute of the friendly France, a brotherly France and I say to the

:38:21. > :38:25.head of these countries that France will be there to defend peace and

:38:26. > :38:34.international cooperation and the commitment taken regarding climate

:38:35. > :38:39.change. And to all of you I am saying that France will be in the

:38:40. > :38:45.first place to fight against terrorism in France but also at

:38:46. > :38:48.international level. For as long as that but all must last, we will be

:38:49. > :38:54.there fighting, without any weakness. My fellow citizens, it is

:38:55. > :39:00.a new page in our long history that is being turned tonight and I want

:39:01. > :39:04.that page to be a page of hope and trust recovered. The renewal of our

:39:05. > :39:15.public life is something that's going to start from tomorrow onwards

:39:16. > :39:19.and people list approach -- pluralistic approach will be the

:39:20. > :39:23.basis of our action and I won't be stocked by any difficulty or

:39:24. > :39:29.obstacle. I will act in a determined manner that is respecting all of you

:39:30. > :39:32.because food work, through school and culture, that's how we're going

:39:33. > :39:38.to build a better culture -- because through work. To all of you, people

:39:39. > :39:44.in France, my fellow citizens, tonight I would like to salute

:39:45. > :39:48.President Hollande because he has worked for our country for the last

:39:49. > :39:54.few years and for the next five years, my responsibility is going to

:39:55. > :40:01.be to calm fears and make us believe in optimism again and to recover the

:40:02. > :40:06.conquest there it which is the best definition of the French spirit --

:40:07. > :40:08.the conquest spirit. I will gather together the men and women who are

:40:09. > :40:14.ready to face the challenges that we have to expect. Some of these

:40:15. > :40:19.challenges are also pieces of luck, like the digital revolution,

:40:20. > :40:24.restarting Europe, and others are threats, like terrorism. I will

:40:25. > :40:33.fight, I will fight with all my strength against the division which

:40:34. > :40:38.is so deleterious to us and that is how we are going to give to the

:40:39. > :40:44.French nation, to all of you, in his professional life, in its personal

:40:45. > :40:49.life, the chances that France owes to its citizens. Let's love France

:40:50. > :40:58.from tonight and for the five years to come. In a very humble way, we

:40:59. > :41:02.have total devotion and determination. I'm going to serve

:41:03. > :41:10.our country, going to serve France. Long live the Republic and

:41:11. > :41:17.long-lived France. So, Emmanuel Macron making a very sober statement

:41:18. > :41:20.at his headquarters. I was thinking, very different to what we saw in

:41:21. > :41:25.2012 when President Hollande became president. On that occasion he was

:41:26. > :41:30.in the south of the country. He had a constituency which Macron doesn't,

:41:31. > :41:34.he has never been elected. He went to speak to his supporters down

:41:35. > :41:40.there and then he went to Paris and he made speeches from the stage. He

:41:41. > :41:44.made very clear that as a 39-year-old man he wanted to make a

:41:45. > :41:52.sober and serious statements to unite people before he heads here to

:41:53. > :41:56.the Louvre. You can see the pictures from the Louvre where they will be a

:41:57. > :42:03.big celebration. I'm joined by a journalist and broadcaster.

:42:04. > :42:07.Christine, no great surprises, we thought this may happen two weeks

:42:08. > :42:15.ago, that Macron would be the next president. He is two years younger

:42:16. > :42:21.than the average person in France. It may not be a surprise to us, but

:42:22. > :42:26.it is a huge achievement. It is unheard of in the political history

:42:27. > :42:35.of this country. He is a man, 39 years old, the youngest ever, who

:42:36. > :42:42.has just talked about hope in this nation. All of this grumbling, so

:42:43. > :42:49.pessimistic about itself. Now, this country has the face of a young man

:42:50. > :42:53.who talks about hope. This performance, having no constituency,

:42:54. > :42:59.having never been elected to office before... 13 months ago when he

:43:00. > :43:03.launched his movement, the chattering class in Paris were

:43:04. > :43:10.sneering saying, who does he think he is? Well, he's the president. Of

:43:11. > :43:20.course he has had an incredible series of Lucky strikes because no

:43:21. > :43:25.one would have imagined this presidential campaign to have so

:43:26. > :43:32.many... The wings of fortune. He was courageous when he launched his

:43:33. > :43:39.party and he took the right opportunity and the right time. Luck

:43:40. > :43:44.is also a big part of political life. Behind him, the French flag

:43:45. > :43:49.and the European flag. We are told he will make his first visit as

:43:50. > :43:53.president to soldiers, probably overseas, and then to Berlin to see

:43:54. > :43:56.Angela Merkel and there will be many people in Brussels who are going to

:43:57. > :44:01.be breathing a sigh of relief this evening. Yes, for two reasons, this

:44:02. > :44:08.is a clear victory against Euro phobia. France, as in many other

:44:09. > :44:13.countries, you have a lot of Euro scepticism but that is different

:44:14. > :44:17.from Euro phobia. Euro phobia we have seen in the UK, unfortunately.

:44:18. > :44:24.It means that you hate Europe so much that you want to leave it.

:44:25. > :44:29.Tonight it's clear that part of Mr Macron's victory against Le Pen is a

:44:30. > :44:32.victory against Euro phobia. The French don't want to leave the the

:44:33. > :44:38.EU, they don't want to leave the European Union, they want to remain

:44:39. > :44:43.but they can still be Eurosceptic, that will be a challenge for Macron.

:44:44. > :44:50.There is something more that Christine told us about, it's trying

:44:51. > :44:58.to fight against Franco scepticism. This is painful for this country.

:44:59. > :45:02.Trying to promote what he called a more proactive and positive optimism

:45:03. > :45:08.in the future, yes, we can. This was part of his campaign and part of his

:45:09. > :45:12.success is connected to it. Easier said than done. These turning points

:45:13. > :45:16.are to be noted in France as regards Europe and the world. You will both

:45:17. > :45:22.access that when you look at the first round vote and who voted for

:45:23. > :45:29.Le Pen and some of the other candidates, nearly 50% of the French

:45:30. > :45:36.people were Eurosceptic? When you look at the motives for which voters

:45:37. > :45:42.supported Macron in the first round, you don'ts Europe first. So you

:45:43. > :45:46.shouldn't over interpret those voting for Macron as pro-Europe and

:45:47. > :45:57.those voting elsewhere as anti-Europe. There is more Euro

:45:58. > :46:01.scepticism in France than there was ten years ago, it's true. Macron's

:46:02. > :46:11.Challenge Cup the first and foremost is a national challenge, regarding

:46:12. > :46:17.education, unemployment, taxation, social protection, these are a

:46:18. > :46:19.national challenge is to be fixed with international solutions. Euro

:46:20. > :46:26.scepticism had nothing to do about that. Do you think that the French

:46:27. > :46:30.people want more Europe? Is this campaign was about a deeply

:46:31. > :46:38.integrated and reformed Europe, but more deeply tied together. -- this

:46:39. > :46:47.campaign was about. Europe has been the scapegoat of the Euro phobia as

:46:48. > :46:51.well as a degree of Euro scepticism. But the French have very

:46:52. > :46:54.contradictory feelings about that. When you look at the Europe

:46:55. > :47:00.Boerrigter, a majority of the French are a pro-Europe and more than two

:47:01. > :47:08.years ago -- when you look at the French barometer. They don't want to

:47:09. > :47:12.leave Europe, which is why Marine Le Pen fumbled about that issue. The

:47:13. > :47:22.issue is very much the reforms that France must conduct and neither

:47:23. > :47:29.Hollande zero Sarkozy were able to put through. So Europe became a kind

:47:30. > :47:35.of facade, it's because of Europe, but no, it is because France did not

:47:36. > :47:41.conduct the reforms that were conducted in Germany, Italy, Spain,

:47:42. > :47:47.even in Britain in the 1970s. So there is a confusion, it seems to

:47:48. > :47:52.me. A lot of political exploitation, as if all of the problems of France

:47:53. > :47:58.were because of Europe. It's not true. The problems are due firstly

:47:59. > :48:02.because of the difficulty in this country to reform and that will be

:48:03. > :48:08.Macron's main challenge, how to conduct reform, starting with very

:48:09. > :48:15.stifling Labour laws, for instance, and how to proceed with a

:48:16. > :48:18.parliamentary majority which will be decided by these forthcoming

:48:19. > :48:24.elections in June. We will talk more in a moment. Let's hear from the

:48:25. > :48:28.Marine Le Pen camp because James Reynolds has been there and he's

:48:29. > :48:38.been speaking to the election coordinator. We have 35% of people

:48:39. > :48:45.who are convinced of our programme. It's not the case of Mr Macron, who

:48:46. > :48:52.has 65% of the vote, but 60% of his voters voted against Marine Le Pen.

:48:53. > :48:58.In any Western democracy, a 30 point loss is a huge loss. No, I don't

:48:59. > :49:05.think so, it depends on what's going to happen in the next weeks because,

:49:06. > :49:12.as I said, only 40% of the voters of the manual macro -- of Emmanuel

:49:13. > :49:23.Macron voted for his policies. One must look to the political dynamic.

:49:24. > :49:27.Today is not the end, it is a start, a beginning and we have a political

:49:28. > :49:34.basis on which we can construct an alternative to Mr Macron's ideas.

:49:35. > :49:39.Marine Le Pen at the podium talked about transforming her movement.

:49:40. > :49:44.What did she mean by that, a new party? Yes, a new political

:49:45. > :49:50.movement, a new political alliance that will gather all figures and

:49:51. > :50:01.leaders, all the parties that are convinced by the a patriotic idea.

:50:02. > :50:09.Which ones? One party got 5% of the vote in the first round. Many

:50:10. > :50:14.Republicans... Was tonight the end of the Front National, the party

:50:15. > :50:18.founded in 1972? No, because the Front National is only a name. If

:50:19. > :50:25.you look at the political and humanly a la tea, this is going to

:50:26. > :50:34.be the hard-core of a big movement -- political and human reality.

:50:35. > :50:39.Critics will say that they can see through a name change. If the

:50:40. > :50:42.policies are the same, if some of the policies towards minorities are

:50:43. > :50:47.the same, then the name doesn't matter, the problems remain. We are

:50:48. > :50:53.not against minorities, we want to restore the French identity and

:50:54. > :51:01.French sovereignty. France, when it was proud of its ideas, was never

:51:02. > :51:07.against minorities. I am from a minority and I am close to Marine Le

:51:08. > :51:13.Pen. What you say now epitomises the propaganda that was made against us

:51:14. > :51:21.between the two rounds of the election. We have been criminalised

:51:22. > :51:26.because we have been treated like Nazis, the extreme right. Of course

:51:27. > :51:34.when you repeat this every day and night, you win the ballot. At Marine

:51:35. > :51:39.Le Pen's headquarters. Some news from Nigel Farage, who gave his

:51:40. > :51:44.support to Marine Le Pen. He is quoted as saying that Mr Macron

:51:45. > :51:49.offers five more years of failure, more power to the EU and the

:51:50. > :51:54.continuation of open borders. If marine sticks in there she can win

:51:55. > :52:01.in 2022. That's the opinion of Nigel Farage. The projection we have so

:52:02. > :52:05.far, you'll see that according to the pollsters that are helping us

:52:06. > :52:14.this evening, they predict that Emmanuel Macron has taken 65.5% of

:52:15. > :52:18.the vote compared to 34.5% of the vote for Marine Le Pen. She got 11

:52:19. > :52:23.million votes. Quite a sizeable chunk more than her father got in

:52:24. > :52:30.2002, he got 4.5 million then. Although she has a lot of criticism

:52:31. > :52:33.from her father in recent days, Christine she can say that she has

:52:34. > :52:41.done better than him. She also killed her father politically, which

:52:42. > :52:49.is how she managed to weaken the far right to a point. How awful

:52:50. > :52:58.performance in the TV debate, the violence, the vocabulary, you know,

:52:59. > :53:04.the old style French far right, going back before World War II, it

:53:05. > :53:13.came back. But she is a formidable politician. There's no reason not to

:53:14. > :53:17.acknowledge that her performance has been remarkable altogether. 11

:53:18. > :53:22.million people voting for her. It will be interesting to see how many

:53:23. > :53:27.seats the far right will get in the next National Assembly because again

:53:28. > :53:34.we have a voting system that is so different from yours, which always

:53:35. > :53:41.favours the main parties. For the time being, the FN only has two

:53:42. > :53:46.seats in the National Assembly so interesting to see how more she

:53:47. > :53:56.gets. But it is obvious that she has managed to actually impose the far

:53:57. > :54:02.right's themes, the populist themes, always to talk about identity,

:54:03. > :54:06.protectionism, fear, we are all in decline, and these things will

:54:07. > :54:12.indeed remain in the national debate. That's the point, isn't it,

:54:13. > :54:16.regardless of the result this evening she has had an effect on

:54:17. > :54:25.this election because in large part she has moved the debate to the

:54:26. > :54:32.right. You mentioned Nigel Farage. Ukip, he only had one seat,

:54:33. > :54:36.sometimes two in the chamber. And he managed... Why does he bother about

:54:37. > :54:41.winning elections in Britain? What is at stake is not the institutional

:54:42. > :54:47.victory because it is difficult for Marine Le Pen to win. We have seen

:54:48. > :54:52.this in 2015, in the regional elections she couldn't win. It isn't

:54:53. > :55:02.the institutional victory she is expecting, it is a political one.

:55:03. > :55:07.She has succeeded partly. What will be very challenging in the next few

:55:08. > :55:15.weeks and months will be to see how the traditional right will be --

:55:16. > :55:18.traditional right will behave. Just time to tell you that Donald Trump

:55:19. > :55:26.has been on Twitter, he likes to do that! Tweeting his congratulations

:55:27. > :55:30.to Emmanuel Macron on his big win, saying he looks forward to working

:55:31. > :55:33.with him. Someone who showed some support for Marine Le Pen over the

:55:34. > :55:39.last few days but sending a warm message to Macron. We are expecting

:55:40. > :55:44.Mr Macron to turn up at the Louvre over the next half an hour and we

:55:45. > :56:07.will have plenty more analysis for you.

:56:08. > :56:13.Labour says it will not raise income tax for anyone earning less

:56:14. > :56:15.than ?80,000 a year as part of an election pledge

:56:16. > :56:22.The Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, said those earning

:56:23. > :56:25.over the ?80,000 threshold would be asked to pay "a bit more"

:56:26. > :56:29.The Conservatives say they have no plan to raise income tax but have

:56:30. > :56:31.so far refused to completely rule it out.

:56:32. > :56:37.Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright reports.

:56:38. > :56:39.It was a slogan used by Tony Blair, now revived

:56:40. > :56:43.Setting out what he called a big deal to upgrade the economy,

:56:44. > :56:46.John McDonnell promised not to raise VAT or national insurance

:56:47. > :56:51.for anyone, but said the top 5% of earners would pay more.

:56:52. > :56:57.If Labour is elected next month, we will guarantee for the next five

:56:58. > :57:01.years, there will be no income tax rises, for all those earning less

:57:02. > :57:15.Labour is now the party of low taxes for middle and lower earners.

:57:16. > :57:18.Mr McDonnell said people earning more than ?80,000 a year would pay

:57:19. > :57:21.a modest amount more but the rates and details would have

:57:22. > :57:25.The Conservatives have promised not to raise VAT but have so far made no

:57:26. > :57:27.matching pledge on national insurance or income tax.

:57:28. > :57:30.Today, the Tories said Labour was going back to the past.

:57:31. > :57:37.They want to raise taxes, they want to penalise business,

:57:38. > :57:39.they want to penalise wealth creation and I think they will end

:57:40. > :57:42.up wrecking the economy as they have done in the past.

:57:43. > :57:44.The total amount of income tax raised in 2016 is

:57:45. > :57:57.The top 5% of UK earners, Labour's target group for tax rises, paid

:57:58. > :57:59.just over 47% of that, close to ?80 billion.

:58:00. > :58:02.You cannot make a really big change to the amount of money

:58:03. > :58:05.that is available just by focusing on people over 80,000 a year,

:58:06. > :58:09.partly because they already pay an awful lot of tax and a lot more

:58:10. > :58:12.than they did a few years ago, but partly because if you really

:58:13. > :58:15.want significant amounts of money, you have to do something

:58:16. > :58:19.the politicians don't like doing, which is hit the majority of people,

:58:20. > :58:22.which is where VAT and the national insurance and a lot of income

:58:23. > :58:27.You are pledging to increase tax on high earners have to pay

:58:28. > :58:29.for public services and borrow billions for infrastructure,

:58:30. > :58:34.but that has been Labour's message since Jeremy Corbyn became leader.

:58:35. > :58:37.Why do you think it can turn things around for Labour in the last four

:58:38. > :58:40.weeks of this general election campaign when it seems it

:58:41. > :58:50.I think there is an opportunity now in the general election campaign

:58:51. > :58:53.which we have not had before since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader.

:58:54. > :58:56.I think we can turn the polls around and I genuinely think we can secure

:58:57. > :59:01.Many of the bankers and financiers who work here would pay more income

:59:02. > :59:03.tax under Labour's plan and this is the first general

:59:04. > :59:06.election for many years, when there is a stark choice

:59:07. > :59:07.developing between Labour and the Conservatives with how

:59:08. > :59:13.the economy should be run and how money should be raised and spent.

:59:14. > :59:16.The Liberal Democrats say their manifesto will include

:59:17. > :59:19.a commitment to keep the "triple lock" on pensions

:59:20. > :59:25.This would guarantee they rise by as much as wages,

:59:26. > :59:30.inflation or 2.5%, whichever is highest.

:59:31. > :59:32.But pensioners with annual incomes above ?45,000 would lose

:59:33. > :59:35.Labour has also pledged to retain the triple lock;

:59:36. > :59:38.Theresa May has declined to say whether the Conservatives

:59:39. > :59:43.More than eighty Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped

:59:44. > :59:46.by the militant group Boko Haram have met the country's President

:59:47. > :59:49.after being freed in a prisoner swap.

:59:50. > :59:51.The girls from Chibok were among more than two-hundred

:59:52. > :59:55.The government says they'll be given medical checks before being reunited

:59:56. > :00:19.Around 100 others are still being held.

:00:20. > :00:26.Welcome back to our special results programme, I am Christian Fraser in

:00:27. > :00:29.Paris, the city looking resplendent tonight, this is the Arc de

:00:30. > :00:35.Triomphe, the flag fluttering there has been hung for the celebrations

:00:36. > :00:41.tomorrow, May eight. It will mark the anniversary of the end of the

:00:42. > :00:45.Second World War, May eight, 1945 victory Day in France and indeed

:00:46. > :00:48.Francois Hollande the outgoing president and the President elect

:00:49. > :00:52.Emmanuel Macron will be here tomorrow at the flame of the unknown

:00:53. > :00:58.soldier. The first official duty of Emmanuel Macron as President elect

:00:59. > :01:03.and we understand that Francois Hollande perhaps the next table go

:01:04. > :01:09.to say goodbye to the German Chancellor. We are expecting

:01:10. > :01:13.Emmanuel Macron to appear at the Louvre for the party already

:01:14. > :01:18.underway. If you are just joining us, he's set to become the next

:01:19. > :01:22.president, at 39 the centrist party leader will become the youngest

:01:23. > :01:26.president of France since 1848 when the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte was

:01:27. > :01:31.the leader. He has beaten the far right candidate Marine Le Pen and

:01:32. > :01:35.has taken more than 65% of the vote according to exit polls. Marine Le

:01:36. > :01:40.Pen has conceded defeat but told supporters that with 11 million

:01:41. > :01:44.votes the Front National was now clearly the main party of

:01:45. > :01:47.opposition. British Prime Minister Theresa May has congratulated the

:01:48. > :01:52.President-elect on his success, saying France is one of our closest

:01:53. > :01:56.allies and we look forward to working with the new president on a

:01:57. > :02:00.wide range of shared priorities. There's also been a message from the

:02:01. > :02:05.German Chancellor Angela Merkel who said the win was a strong victory

:02:06. > :02:09.for a strong and united Europe. And in the last few minutes the

:02:10. > :02:12.President of the United States Donald Trump has also congratulated

:02:13. > :02:16.Mr Macron and says he looks forward to working with him in the near

:02:17. > :02:22.future. Let's just remind our selves of those projected results. If you

:02:23. > :02:29.are just joining us you will see on your screens that Mr Macron took

:02:30. > :02:36.65.5% of the vote. That's the latest projection, compared to full Marine

:02:37. > :02:40.Le Pen. There are horns sounding behind us, people are flying the

:02:41. > :02:58.French flag out of the windows of their car. With me is a well-known

:02:59. > :03:02.journalist, Christine, and Yves from the Jacques Delors Institute.

:03:03. > :03:06.Emmanuel Macron spoke earlier about the responsibilities of becoming

:03:07. > :03:10.president of France. TRANSLATION: A long page in our history is being

:03:11. > :03:16.turned tonight and I want that page to be a page of hope and trust

:03:17. > :03:24.recovered. The renewal of our public life is something that is going to

:03:25. > :03:28.start from tomorrow on what and the great pluralist approach and

:03:29. > :03:34.vitality will be the basis of my action and I will not be stopped by

:03:35. > :03:37.any difficulty or obstacle. I will act in a determined manner but

:03:38. > :03:41.respecting all of you, because through work, through school,

:03:42. > :03:51.through culture, that is how we are going to build a better future. To

:03:52. > :03:54.all of you, people of France, tonight, I would like to salute

:03:55. > :04:02.Francois Hollande because for five years he has worked for our country.

:04:03. > :04:07.And for the next five years my responsibility is going to be to

:04:08. > :04:13.calm fears and to make us believe in optimism again, and to recover the

:04:14. > :04:18.conquered spirit which is the best definition of the French spirit. My

:04:19. > :04:22.responsibility will be to gather together all the men and women

:04:23. > :04:27.willing to face the challenges that we have to expect. Some of these

:04:28. > :04:31.challenges are also pieces of luck like the digital revolution, the

:04:32. > :04:37.restart of Europe, and others are threats, like terrorism. I will

:04:38. > :04:43.fight. I will fight with all my strength against the division which

:04:44. > :04:48.is so delirious to us. And that is how we are going to give to the

:04:49. > :04:56.French nation, to all of you in its professional life, and its personal

:04:57. > :05:00.and familial life, the chances that France owes to its citizens. That's

:05:01. > :05:07.love France and from tonight and for the five years to come. -- lets love

:05:08. > :05:12.France. In a very humble way but with total devotion, with total

:05:13. > :05:19.determination, I am going to serve our country, to serve France on your

:05:20. > :05:22.behalf. Long live the Republic and long-lived France. Emmanuel Macron

:05:23. > :05:27.speaking earlier. Let's chill you the pictures of the Louvre. A real

:05:28. > :05:32.party is underway. Thousands of people there. You will I'm sure be

:05:33. > :05:41.familiar with the glass pyramid in front of the Tuileries Gardens. Will

:05:42. > :05:46.speak to Damian Grammaticas who is there in a second. Just watching the

:05:47. > :05:49.scene that there are a lot of people heading down the Champs-Elysees

:05:50. > :05:54.towards the Louvre and when he appears there in about half an hour

:05:55. > :05:56.he will get quite the reception. Earlier the National front leader

:05:57. > :05:58.Marine Le Pen did have something to say about the result,

:05:59. > :06:10.she did phone Mr Macron to concede having seen the initial projections,

:06:11. > :06:13.let's hear from her. TRANSLATION: The people have chosen a new

:06:14. > :06:19.president. I called Emmanuel Macron to congratulate him on being

:06:20. > :06:23.elected. Believe me come in the main interests of the country, I wish him

:06:24. > :06:26.success in the face of the challenges he will face and I want

:06:27. > :06:31.to thank the 11 million French people that gave me their vote.

:06:32. > :06:37.Through that massive and historical choice, the French shows the Patriot

:06:38. > :06:44.and Republican Alliance as the main opposition to the project of that

:06:45. > :06:48.new president. The political parties that have chosen to vote for Mr

:06:49. > :06:54.Macron are no longer legitimate to represent an alternative force or

:06:55. > :07:01.even a credible opposition. The first round showed that there was

:07:02. > :07:05.total decomposition of the normal political French life and that

:07:06. > :07:08.second-hand is a recomposition round, but division between patriots

:07:09. > :07:23.and globalists. Marine Le Pen trying to take comfort

:07:24. > :07:26.from the 35.5% of votes she won, long way behind Emmanuel Macron.

:07:27. > :07:32.Emmanuel Macron is at the Louvre, there can't be many better settings

:07:33. > :07:37.for a party like this one, getting underway, Damian Grammaticas. Yes,

:07:38. > :07:41.you've just joined us as the party is really kicking into gear. The

:07:42. > :07:45.bands have been on stage and they are getting louder and louder. The

:07:46. > :07:50.crowds here, hundreds of them, they've all been waving their flags,

:07:51. > :07:55.there was a moment when everyone waited for the polls to close and

:07:56. > :08:00.the projection to go on screen. There was a big cheer from here and

:08:01. > :08:05.then the party began. When Mr Macron are delivered his first speech whole

:08:06. > :08:11.place fell silent and everyone listened, which is quite

:08:12. > :08:17.extraordinary actually. Everyone taking in his message about how he

:08:18. > :08:20.was going to respond to what he had learned from the election, deliver

:08:21. > :08:28.and this message of change at home but also to those who had voted for

:08:29. > :08:32.his opponent, Marine Le Pen. And now they are waiting for him to come

:08:33. > :08:35.here in half an hour or so. And as you are saying, I'm sure that the

:08:36. > :08:41.reception will be huge for him, because the feeling here, I think,

:08:42. > :08:46.is joy at the size of the victory and also the promise, many people

:08:47. > :08:49.who voted for Mr Macron because of his promise to bring something new,

:08:50. > :08:55.something different. It's getting louder and louder. They say that

:08:56. > :09:01.this is going to go on late into the night. We will let you enjoy the

:09:02. > :09:06.party for the moment. Thank you very much for the moment. Just keeping an

:09:07. > :09:11.eye on Emmanuel Macron's headquarters, he is due to leave

:09:12. > :09:24.there in the next few minutes. You can see the exterior shots outside

:09:25. > :09:27.the HQ. Let's speak to Christine Ockrent. Let's speak about the

:09:28. > :09:31.position of the president. He is the head of state and often the French

:09:32. > :09:38.have elected a much older figure, like Jacques Chirac or fossil

:09:39. > :09:42.Mitterrand. That fossil Mitterrand. They have all been statesman-like.

:09:43. > :09:48.How are people going to react to a 39-year-old taking the top job?

:09:49. > :09:53.First of all they elected him. I think that shows that there is a

:09:54. > :09:57.longing in this country. The French tend to be very depressed when you

:09:58. > :10:01.look at all the data, they are supposed to be the most depressed

:10:02. > :10:06.people in Europe. And yet the new face of France is that young man.

:10:07. > :10:14.Talking about hope. So I think it sends a signal which is very strong

:10:15. > :10:18.indeed, although public opinion is very divided, very fragmented. I

:10:19. > :10:24.think it should be stressed that many people didn't even bother to go

:10:25. > :10:34.and vote today. About one quarter of French voters. So he will have, on

:10:35. > :10:39.the one hand, I think, his speech was a good sign of that, talking

:10:40. > :10:48.about the need to you at night this divided nation. -- the need to

:10:49. > :10:53.unite. His problem will be to find support in parliament after the

:10:54. > :11:00.elections next June, in order to get some results. And the first issue in

:11:01. > :11:06.this country, a terrible issue, is unemployment, especially for young

:11:07. > :11:09.people. 25% of the young people in this country are unemployed. So he

:11:10. > :11:18.will have to show that he can make a difference. And the difference also

:11:19. > :11:25.is that he hasn't made that many promises, compared to his

:11:26. > :11:28.predecessors. Maybe it's a better sign of not being such a

:11:29. > :11:33.disappointment as indeed Francois Hollande has been. Back to that

:11:34. > :11:37.image of the president, have the French changed their view over the

:11:38. > :11:42.years, Nicolas Sarkozy was a break with the past, he was a young, of

:11:43. > :11:45.the present president, it used to be that the president was above the

:11:46. > :11:48.political fray and the Prime ministers would take the heat for

:11:49. > :11:54.any political row. It's different now. What has changed but that is

:11:55. > :12:04.true in all our democracies is that it is the relationship between the

:12:05. > :12:10.citizen and the issues of concern to him or her. And it has to do with

:12:11. > :12:16.smartphones, all social media, I think there's more impatience.

:12:17. > :12:20.People don't want to wait. We all live and that electronic pace and it

:12:21. > :12:26.makes the job of the politician even more difficult than ever before --

:12:27. > :12:32.we live at that electronic pace. And I think there's a relationship again

:12:33. > :12:37.between the individual citizens, the government, the Prime Minister in

:12:38. > :12:40.your country, not the Queen, but the Prime Minister... That's what I

:12:41. > :12:44.mean, our head of state is above the political fray and that is to beat

:12:45. > :12:49.away in France but it is not that way any more. It never has been. The

:12:50. > :12:54.president of the fifth Republic has a lot of power. Much more so than

:12:55. > :13:00.the German Chancellor. But he could make the Prime Minister take the

:13:01. > :13:06.fall. Just for the image and everything but he's very much hands

:13:07. > :13:14.on in the actual politics of the country. He is young, 39, the woman

:13:15. > :13:18.who will be beside him, with made a lot of this, is much older, 24 years

:13:19. > :13:26.older than him, his former drama teacher. She has really been, in a

:13:27. > :13:36.way, there throughout his life. Very much so. He has been insisting on

:13:37. > :13:40.her importance throughout the campaign and she has become very

:13:41. > :13:46.popular. And I think there's also something very new in other

:13:47. > :13:53.circumstances, people might have been shocked and said, how strange.

:13:54. > :13:57.We are all used to having very old gentlemen with young women. This

:13:58. > :14:02.time it's the reverse. And the reverse of the US president because

:14:03. > :14:06.Melania Trump is 24 years younger than Mr Trump. There's no comparison

:14:07. > :14:12.possible even between the two presidents. Seriously, Brigitte

:14:13. > :14:18.Macron has played a role and will play a role and they are obviously a

:14:19. > :14:25.very, very strong partnership. Which has indeed mattered very much in his

:14:26. > :14:33.audacity and in the challenge that he has set for himself. Again,

:14:34. > :14:38.Brigitte Macron will be an important part of the new presidency. OK.

:14:39. > :14:43.We've received some updated projections from the polling agency

:14:44. > :14:50.helping us this evening. Emmanuel Macron has slightly stretched his

:14:51. > :14:54.lead, 65.7%, up from 65.5%. Votes are being counted all the time I run

:14:55. > :15:03.the country. The polls have been closed for well over an hour. Marine

:15:04. > :15:08.Le Pen on 34.3%. Hugh Schofield our Paris correspondent, has joined us

:15:09. > :15:12.on the balcony. What are you making of this? One thing that slightly

:15:13. > :15:18.worries me is that I feel this air of relief in Paris that it's all all

:15:19. > :15:21.right, it's fine, the right side has one. Everyone is out on the streets

:15:22. > :15:25.celebrating and one feels that it has returned to normality. Whereas

:15:26. > :15:33.of course the reality is that there is a huge movement in France and

:15:34. > :15:45.around Europe, in France, in Britain, in America, of

:15:46. > :15:47.dissatisfaction, of, I don't know, nativist people worried about losing

:15:48. > :15:51.their jobs or their sense of who they are. That has not got away. One

:15:52. > :15:55.can easily get caught up in this sense of things going back to the

:15:56. > :15:59.way they were before and thank goodness there's a man in charge who

:16:00. > :16:04.was going to carry on in the same way with European leaders that we

:16:05. > :16:08.all used to. And rather forgetting that behind all this and the

:16:09. > :16:13.excitement of all that has happened, our profound changes in society and

:16:14. > :16:19.in the way we operate. You're absolutely right of course. It is

:16:20. > :16:24.very much what Emmanuel Macron has actually recognised in his speech.

:16:25. > :16:29.It was very important indeed, that first speech was crucial for him.

:16:30. > :16:37.His speech after the first round was a disappointment but tonight he

:16:38. > :16:41.spoke very much to these priorities that you mention. For me one thing

:16:42. > :16:47.to his great credit is that he doesn't go out to please. In the way

:16:48. > :16:52.that Francois Hollande did, for example, he is now about to leave,

:16:53. > :16:55.he made his famous speech about finance to please the left. Then he

:16:56. > :17:01.said other things to please other people. At no point, and this is his

:17:02. > :17:06.brilliance, Emmanuel Macron, does he take his message for the audience.

:17:07. > :17:09.He is very consistent. When he is with workers as it was last week he

:17:10. > :17:15.was saying things that were quite tough for them to swallow. He is a

:17:16. > :17:18.man of immense self possession, immense self belief in a way which

:17:19. > :17:23.could be difficult to swallow in another person, in a man who didn't

:17:24. > :17:29.seem genuinely committed to the public good. I hope for his sake and

:17:30. > :17:33.for France's sake that this balancing act comes off. What you

:17:34. > :17:38.can't accuse him of is tailoring his message for different groups. He has

:17:39. > :17:42.said that there are tough times ahead and when he was asked the

:17:43. > :17:47.other day at his last interview, he was asked what was his message of

:17:48. > :17:51.the youth. He didn't say, I will fight for you, I will defend you and

:17:52. > :17:55.the usual Pap. He said, it's going to be tough, I will fight to make

:17:56. > :18:00.sure that young people can find their own destiny. And that means

:18:01. > :18:06.removing the blockages in society. That is code. That is saying, I'm a

:18:07. > :18:11.liberal. In a way this is the mirror of what he wants to achieve because

:18:12. > :18:15.it's the older generation, privileged within French society,

:18:16. > :18:19.who have jobs that you can't force a man out of, he's actually forced the

:18:20. > :18:26.establishment out of the top job and presumably he'll put a bit of that

:18:27. > :18:31.into French society. He represents a generation as opposed to the 1968

:18:32. > :18:37.generation, he's come up behind that. In that generation is an awful

:18:38. > :18:41.lot of frustration with the 1968 generation precisely because of that

:18:42. > :18:45.squatting on public life, getting it good for themselves and not allowing

:18:46. > :18:48.the next generation to express itself and be free to innovate, to

:18:49. > :18:55.be entrepreneurs and the rest of it, and he speaks to that. Would you

:18:56. > :19:03.agree? Very much so. The generation has changed, a total political

:19:04. > :19:15.reshuffling of the landscape. The two extreme parties being kicked

:19:16. > :19:19.out. The Socialist party in ruins and the Conservative Party will

:19:20. > :19:22.probably explode sooner or later because you have to or three wings

:19:23. > :19:26.that don't agree on anything and they certainly don't agree on what

:19:27. > :19:34.attitude to have towards the new president. It will be interesting to

:19:35. > :19:39.see how the new president will try to include in the forthcoming

:19:40. > :19:45.government some people, some conservative members, in order to

:19:46. > :19:49.accelerate the splitting up of the mainstream Conservative Party.

:19:50. > :19:54.Interesting thoughts. Stay with us. We'll go to the Louvre and speak to

:19:55. > :19:59.suffer McLauchlan, who I met on Friday, someone who has been working

:20:00. > :20:02.for the Macron campaign. Sophie, you must be pleased with what has

:20:03. > :20:07.happened tonight because you gave up a part of your job, you have been

:20:08. > :20:20.working part-time for the Macron campaign. What does it mean to you?

:20:21. > :20:25.Sophie, can you hear me? I am not sure that Sophie can hear me. Can

:20:26. > :20:37.you hear me? We'll try it one more time. Yes, Hi. I'm sorry! Tell us

:20:38. > :20:50.what it feels like. I'm sorry, I can barely hear you. Tell us what you

:20:51. > :20:53.are thinking tonight. No? I don't think we are going to be able to

:20:54. > :21:06.make contact. It's very noisy down there. What you are looking at is

:21:07. > :21:12.his headquarters in the 15th and this month, a break with tradition

:21:13. > :21:15.tonight because he's made a speech earlier. He's been speaking to the

:21:16. > :21:19.people around the country in a sober and serious speech about the

:21:20. > :21:24.challenge that is ahead. You can see the car that's waiting for him

:21:25. > :21:29.there. He is due to travel with his wife Brigitte as we've been

:21:30. > :21:33.discussing, 24 years his senior. Someone who will play a prominent

:21:34. > :21:38.role in public life. She will not just be in the background. He has

:21:39. > :21:43.bigger plans for her than being first Lady of France. Maybe he'll

:21:44. > :21:48.talk about that when she joins him on stage in a short while. That's

:21:49. > :21:52.the situation at his headquarters. Let's remind you of who it is who

:21:53. > :21:54.will become the next French president, we will take a look

:21:55. > :22:14.at his journey to the Ely is a palace.

:22:15. > :23:52.so Yugo, a bit about the man we will come to know an awful lot better

:23:53. > :23:58.over the course of the next five years. I have been joined by a

:23:59. > :24:09.representative of late republic can and

:24:10. > :24:16.also by Laurent. As we are speaking Mr Macron is on his way to the

:24:17. > :24:21.Louvre. Laurent, you must be disappointed. What does it mean for

:24:22. > :24:25.your movement now, will you stay aligned to the Front National or

:24:26. > :24:31.will you break away again? List tomorrow I am very sad because

:24:32. > :24:33.paradoxically, even if he is not the most unpopular president, Francois

:24:34. > :24:43.Hollande has been re-elected tonight. Through his lookalike,

:24:44. > :24:49.Emmanuel Macron. That's why our patriotic movement, Debout la

:24:50. > :24:57.France, will go on. We will be a true opposition instead of the

:24:58. > :25:00.Republicans, because the Republicans asked French citizens to act

:25:01. > :25:06.Emmanuel Macron. They are a fake opposition. We will be the true

:25:07. > :25:11.patriotic opposition to Mr Macron. We'll talk about that more in a

:25:12. > :25:16.second. Jacques, your reaction to the election? It is a huge victory,

:25:17. > :25:23.there's no doubt of it. I think it's even too big a victory because

:25:24. > :25:29.things are not going to start now, things would be very, very

:25:30. > :25:33.difficult. I just heard that, the last poll said that 61% of the

:25:34. > :25:41.French don't want Macron to have huge majority in the National

:25:42. > :25:46.Assembly. That's why I think in fact it will be very difficult. OK. We

:25:47. > :25:51.will talk more. Thank you both for being with us. Stay with us for this

:25:52. > :26:04.special results programme. Plenty more to come.

:26:05. > :26:12.Good evening. A lovely warm spring day for many of us. The warmest day

:26:13. > :26:15.of the year so far in Northern Ireland and the sunshine in

:26:16. > :26:19.south-east Wales, we saw temperatures of 20 degrees. You can

:26:20. > :26:23.see the extent of the Sun Chan from earlier today breaking up that cloud

:26:24. > :26:28.across southern parts of England, keeping cloud across Yorkshire,

:26:29. > :26:31.Lincolnshire and North East Scotland, under the cloud in

:26:32. > :26:34.Aberdeenshire and has been cooler. And through the rest of the evening

:26:35. > :26:38.and overnight we will keep the cloud feeding in of the North Sea into

:26:39. > :26:42.north-east Scotland, developing more widely in northern and eastern

:26:43. > :26:46.Scotland, eastern England and eventually central England, further

:26:47. > :26:50.west in the countryside with clearer skies the temperatures won't be far

:26:51. > :26:55.from freezing, these are the numbers more likely in towns and cities.

:26:56. > :26:59.What we have on Monday is a west- East split, a cool breeze of the

:27:00. > :27:03.North Sea feeding in cloud across central and eastern UK with more

:27:04. > :27:06.sunshine in the West. Even with the sunshine temperatures will be lower

:27:07. > :27:11.than they were today but we are still looking at the mid to high

:27:12. > :27:15.teens across south-west Scotland and also Northern Ireland and the cloud

:27:16. > :27:19.may break across northern and eastern Scotland and North East

:27:20. > :27:24.England at times. Through the Midlands, Yorkshire, linkage, East

:27:25. > :27:28.Anglia, sunshine in Wales and the West, more in the way of cloud, not

:27:29. > :27:32.just the Midlands but for the south-east of England as well

:27:33. > :27:36.particularly cold honours North Sea coasts with the wind off the sea.

:27:37. > :27:39.The winds are coming around an area of high pressure that extends back

:27:40. > :27:43.towards Greenland. That is dominating our weather for the start

:27:44. > :27:49.of the week at least. Again a lot of dry weather on Tuesday, one or two

:27:50. > :27:52.showers in the north-east of Scotland, more cloud further west,

:27:53. > :27:57.not as much sunshine on Tuesday, that cloud spreading out a little,

:27:58. > :28:01.bright sunny spells almost anywhere and temperatures typically into the

:28:02. > :28:06.mid teens. So a bit more cloud on Tuesday, still got high-pressure on

:28:07. > :28:10.Wednesday but things change in the week as pressure drops and we could

:28:11. > :28:14.start to see the first significant rain coming from the south and

:28:15. > :28:18.spreading north across the UK. I heard of that sunny spells, quite

:28:19. > :28:23.warm by day, some clearer skies at night. It could be quite chilly. And

:28:24. > :30:07.then the chances of potentially heavy rain later in the week.

:30:08. > :30:15.Hello, welcome to the BBC News French election special. Emmanuel

:30:16. > :30:23.Macron has beaten his far right rival and will become the next

:30:24. > :30:27.president of France. The moment his supporters learned that he had won.

:30:28. > :30:34.At just 39, France's youngest ever head of state. He says it is a new

:30:35. > :30:38.era of French history. TRANSLATION: With total devotion and total

:30:39. > :30:42.determination I'm going to serve my country, I'm going to serve France

:30:43. > :30:48.on your behalf. Long live the Republic and long live France. This

:30:49. > :30:55.is the scene in central Paris where Emmanuel Macron is making his way to

:30:56. > :30:59.a rally with his supporters at the Louvre. More than a third of voters

:31:00. > :31:05.chose Marine Le Pen's card like vision. She turned her attention to

:31:06. > :31:12.the coming parliamentary elections. -- far right vision. TRANSLATION: I

:31:13. > :31:19.will try to have a greater number of people to choose from. Turnout at

:31:20. > :31:25.the ballot box was lower than the last three presidential elections.

:31:26. > :31:31.It echoes the disillusionment, for some, with both candidates. We'll

:31:32. > :31:36.have all the Kameric from Paris as other EU capitals breathe a sigh of

:31:37. > :31:38.relief -- all the coverage. Germany calls it a victory for a strong and

:31:39. > :31:57.united Europe. Good evening and welcome to Paris

:31:58. > :32:03.where the French have chosen the Emmanuel Macron to become the next

:32:04. > :32:07.president. At 39 the centrist party leader will be the youngest

:32:08. > :32:10.president of France. He has beaten the far right candidate Marine Le

:32:11. > :32:14.Pen and taken more than 65% of the vote according to the latest

:32:15. > :32:22.projected result. He has called the victory a new era of French history.

:32:23. > :32:31.Marine Le Pen said that with million votes -- with a million -- with 11

:32:32. > :32:39.million votes, the Front National is now the main party of opposition.

:32:40. > :32:46.Quite a gathering weighty for him -- waiting for him outside the Louvre.

:32:47. > :32:56.Let's remind you of the projected result is that we have so far. This

:32:57. > :33:06.is from Konta Publique, who are helping us. Marine Le Pen received

:33:07. > :33:13.11 million votes, which is a lot more than her father got in 2002,

:33:14. > :33:18.Jean-Marie Le Pen. She will consider that a good result for her. Let's

:33:19. > :33:25.show you the live pictures. Quite dramatic pictures of Macron heading

:33:26. > :33:33.through the streets. In the car in front of the police escort there,

:33:34. > :33:38.Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, 24 years his senior, the

:33:39. > :33:44.first lady of France and she'll play quite a prominent role, he says, in

:33:45. > :33:47.the administration. What that role will be, we'll discover perhaps in

:33:48. > :33:57.the next few days but the President-elect is on his way to the

:33:58. > :33:59.Louvre. Let's have a look at how the events unfolded.

:34:00. > :34:09.After the most important, eagerly awaited presidential election in

:34:10. > :34:15.recent French history, victory for Emmanuel Macron. The apparent margin

:34:16. > :34:19.of victory, by 65% to 35% is a relief for supporters to see his win

:34:20. > :34:24.as critical to the future of Europe as well as France. A sombre

:34:25. > :34:29.President-elect address the French nation tonight wary of the challenge

:34:30. > :34:33.ahead. TRANSLATION: It is a new page in our long history that is being

:34:34. > :34:39.turned tonight and I want that page to be a page of hope and of trust.

:34:40. > :34:46.The renewal of our public life is something that is going to start

:34:47. > :34:52.from tomorrow onwards and greater moralising Asian in our public life,

:34:53. > :34:58.the pluralistic approach will be the basis of our action and I won't be

:34:59. > :35:00.stopped by any obstacle. This had been a desperately divisive campaign

:35:01. > :35:08.in which the gulf between the candidates couldn't have been wider.

:35:09. > :35:12.In Mr Macron the voters had a centrist, liberal, pro-European

:35:13. > :35:16.champion of globalism. His opponent Marine Le Pen gave voters a

:35:17. > :35:19.radically different option, anti-immigration, wanting to ditch

:35:20. > :35:25.the euro and strengthen France's borders. 47 million people were

:35:26. > :35:28.eligible to vote. The problem for many French voters was that they

:35:29. > :35:33.found neither candidate particularly attractive. The two traditional

:35:34. > :35:37.factions, Socialists and Republicans, failed to make the

:35:38. > :35:40.final round. Turnout appears to have been loaned and it is thought that

:35:41. > :35:45.many voted for Macron as the lesser of two evils. I'm quite concerned

:35:46. > :35:49.because the candidate I'm going to vote for is not the one I voted for

:35:50. > :35:53.in the first round. But there is still hope that in the five years

:35:54. > :36:00.the president can change some things. I don't want Marine Le Pen

:36:01. > :36:05.to be president, I don't agree with her politics, she is extreme right,

:36:06. > :36:11.anti-immigrant. TRANSLATION: French people have chosen a new leader for

:36:12. > :36:13.the Republic. The night, Le Pen telephoned her opponent to

:36:14. > :36:17.congratulate him but in defeat she warned that the traditional hegemony

:36:18. > :36:20.of French politics had been shattered and many are expecting her

:36:21. > :36:24.to challenge again in four years' time. The political parties that

:36:25. > :36:30.have chosen to vote for Macron are no longer legitimate to represent

:36:31. > :36:35.the alternative force, or even a credible position. Emmanuel Macron

:36:36. > :36:40.appears almost as happy to wrap himself in the European flag as the

:36:41. > :36:43.French one. He is an unknown quantity who will have to win the

:36:44. > :36:50.trust of those who reluctantly voted for him. Leaders from across Europe

:36:51. > :36:54.including Angela Merkel and Theresa May have welcomed his win but one

:36:55. > :36:56.question now, how will a Macron victory effect the big issue facing

:36:57. > :37:08.the EU: Brexit? We can show you the live pictures in

:37:09. > :37:15.Paris, Macron just arriving at the Louvre. We can see that the bands on

:37:16. > :37:20.stage, they have been warming up. I have two guests with me. As you look

:37:21. > :37:23.at these pictures, thousands of people, mainly young people are

:37:24. > :37:27.gathered in Paris tonight for Macron. He's talking about a new

:37:28. > :37:32.era, that he is the candidate of hope and optimism. What do you say?

:37:33. > :37:37.This is the normal speech of a new president whoever he is come at you

:37:38. > :37:44.know. Every new president says that this is a new beginning, so it is

:37:45. > :37:50.nothing astonishing, it doesn't surprise me. The difficulty starts

:37:51. > :37:52.tomorrow morning. Tonight they celebrate, I understand that

:37:53. > :37:55.perfectly but it doesn't solve the problems of France and I'm pretty

:37:56. > :37:59.sure that Macron is not the one to solve them. Obviously you're looking

:38:00. > :38:05.towards the parliamentary elections. Of course. Will there be an attempt

:38:06. > :38:14.for the Republicans to drag him to the right? Macron? No, it's

:38:15. > :38:18.impossible. He belongs to the left. Macron, it's a new attempt to give a

:38:19. > :38:25.new look to the Socialists. This is what he's doing, you know. When I

:38:26. > :38:32.hear the men and women he's going to present in our constituency, I'm

:38:33. > :38:36.sorry, we all know that they have links with the socialist party. This

:38:37. > :38:43.is kind of reinventing the socialist party. I believe that the French

:38:44. > :38:49.will not give him full power. There is an opinion poll tonight saying

:38:50. > :38:53.that 60 front -- 61% don't want to give him full power in the National

:38:54. > :38:57.Assembly, so things are open, it does not mean that everything is

:38:58. > :39:03.set. Things are open and I believe we have a good chance to

:39:04. > :39:08.recalibrate, to rebalance power. Tonight, he has full power. In a

:39:09. > :39:20.fortnight I think things will be different. You were nodding,

:39:21. > :39:23.Laurent. Your party is also to the right, Debout la France, so if you

:39:24. > :39:36.get some seats are, what are you looking to do here? Many Republicans

:39:37. > :39:47.are asking Mr Macron to go back into government. But I think this is the

:39:48. > :39:55.sole position and it is a big danger because his electorate are not going

:39:56. > :40:01.to fall him -- follow him. They will have a new job and a new career. Now

:40:02. > :40:09.we have a very important choice. On one hand we can go ahead with mass

:40:10. > :40:16.immigration, uncontrolled globalisation, more taxes. Or on the

:40:17. > :40:21.other end we can have a patriot choice which is to take care of

:40:22. > :40:27.French people who are suffering, to take care of our country, to give

:40:28. > :40:33.back the jobs in France and to lower taxes to spend more and consume more

:40:34. > :40:42.in order to boost the economy. They said that your leader, Nicolas

:40:43. > :40:48.Dupont-Aignan, who could have become the leader, only went over because

:40:49. > :40:52.he was broke. Absolutely wrong, there was no financial agreement

:40:53. > :41:01.between the Front National and our party. Is your party in debt? No,

:41:02. > :41:07.because people were supporting us to give us money and they are doing it

:41:08. > :41:17.so we will balance our accounts. You're looking very cynical! I tell

:41:18. > :41:21.you frankly, I think that Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has the sole position,

:41:22. > :41:25.going to the National front, I think that was a mistake. I think he made

:41:26. > :41:30.a mistake. He isn't going to the Front National at all. We had an

:41:31. > :41:39.agreement for leading France for five years. Let's talk about the

:41:40. > :41:43.Republican party. We know that you have a new leader and he has quite a

:41:44. > :41:55.job on his hands because Mr Fillon has walked into the sunset. How are

:41:56. > :42:01.you going to keep everybody happy. I believe that those who are going

:42:02. > :42:06.with France, we aren't going to accept it. We must stand united

:42:07. > :42:13.tonight because tomorrow it is another job and this job goes by

:42:14. > :42:21.unity and because we have a genuine project. We can face our nation with

:42:22. > :42:28.genuine solutions and I believe that it will work. The point is that

:42:29. > :42:35.tonight, people say that with such a huge victory, what is left? A lot is

:42:36. > :42:42.left and a lot must begin again. I just tweeted that in fact we are

:42:43. > :42:46.going to have a new legislative parliamentary election and this is

:42:47. > :42:52.why I believe we can do it. Nothing is lost yet. I should remind people

:42:53. > :42:57.that he took 33 of the departments, the voting districts, from Francois

:42:58. > :43:03.Hollande but he did not take the share of the vote apart from in one

:43:04. > :43:09.of them. He did not have the share that Hollande had in 2012 but this

:43:10. > :43:12.is an extraordinary political rise. Macron is a former investment

:43:13. > :43:17.banker, he served as an adviser and minister in the socialist government

:43:18. > :43:20.of Francois Hollande, the outgoing president but he resigned last year

:43:21. > :43:32.to form a centrist political movement called En Marche.

:43:33. > :43:37.The choice of a country who is desperate for change, neither left

:43:38. > :43:40.nor right, part of the French establishment but never before

:43:41. > :43:49.elected. A fresh face who served in the outgoing government. So, who is

:43:50. > :43:52.Emmanuel Macron? To his supporters he is Emanuel, their political

:43:53. > :44:01.messiah, a provincial boy from outside the establishment who worked

:44:02. > :44:06.his way to power. He is a new man to politics. He's trying to find new

:44:07. > :44:13.solution. He is a new face, he is our hope. He went to France's most

:44:14. > :44:18.prestigious schools, met its most powerful people and made millions in

:44:19. > :44:23.an investment bank. A former colleague says that Macron's rise is

:44:24. > :44:30.partly down to charm but at heart, he is a secretive man. He is able to

:44:31. > :44:44.tell people what they really want to hear. So very seduces man and he

:44:45. > :44:50.manages to agree with nearly everyone. That is a talent. Macron's

:44:51. > :44:56.wife, Brigitte, told a journalist that her husband never let people

:44:57. > :45:00.close. The couple met when she taught him drama, their unusual love

:45:01. > :45:02.affair is a sign, says one of Macron's old friends, of his

:45:03. > :45:10.determination, self belief and drive. I think the only person who

:45:11. > :45:18.really knows him inside the plea is Brigitte. -- deeply. You have to

:45:19. > :45:27.imaging, he seduced her, he convinced her to marry him, leaving

:45:28. > :45:32.her family. Just imagine, it is not a small thing. France has not opted

:45:33. > :45:35.for the political extremes, the far right rejected in favour of a

:45:36. > :45:42.liberal newcomer with his own promise of change. Emmanuel Macron

:45:43. > :45:47.has promised to unite a divided France but his critics say he is the

:45:48. > :45:53.old wine in a shiny new bottle and the price of failure could be high.

:45:54. > :45:56.Some say that Emmanuel Macron has won the presidency by being all

:45:57. > :46:02.things to all people but he won't be able to govern that way. He has five

:46:03. > :46:07.years dissolved France's problems or risk choosing more radical change

:46:08. > :46:10.next time. Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Paris.

:46:11. > :46:19.Old wine in a new bottle, we will get opinions on that in a moment.

:46:20. > :46:23.Let's look at the coming weeks and months. Sometime between Tuesday and

:46:24. > :46:27.Saturday the 13th, the government of the sitting President Francois

:46:28. > :46:31.Hollande will resign. By Monday the 15th, and it must be by then because

:46:32. > :46:37.five years will be up, Macron will be sworn in as president of France

:46:38. > :46:42.at the Elysee Palace, a grand affair. At the moment there is no

:46:43. > :46:46.precise date for that. It won't be clear until next month how easy or

:46:47. > :46:51.how hard it will be for Mr Macron to push through his agenda because as

:46:52. > :46:55.we've been discussing, in early June the 1st round of elections to the

:46:56. > :47:01.lower house of the French parliament takes place and a week later it is

:47:02. > :47:05.the second and final round. A government reshuffle is likely and

:47:06. > :47:09.believe me, it gets tactical, doesn't it, when we get to the

:47:10. > :47:15.second round of the French election. It doesn't follow that he's going to

:47:16. > :47:19.get a parliamentary majority. We try not to give him this majority

:47:20. > :47:26.because I think this will be very disastrous in a way that it will be

:47:27. > :47:30.an adventure. When you look at the economic project of Macron,

:47:31. > :47:37.sometimes he is right, sometimes he is left, how is he going to have

:47:38. > :47:44.compliance between those positions? I don't know. We need a strong

:47:45. > :47:53.Republican opposition so that we bring some reason back. This is what

:47:54. > :47:59.we are going to stand for. It means we have not won and we have not lost

:48:00. > :48:03.yet. Quite a fierce battle for the legislative and national assembly. I

:48:04. > :48:12.do believe we can make it because I've been astonished by people

:48:13. > :48:22.saying that they voted for Macron but in the legislative they will

:48:23. > :48:26.vote for me. I am very present in my constituency, I go everywhere so

:48:27. > :48:32.that I can explain why I voted Blank and I did not vote for Macron. I'm

:48:33. > :48:37.not schizophrenic, you know. How can you vote for a man who you are going

:48:38. > :48:44.to oppose in a fortnight in East assiduously? I could not really

:48:45. > :48:49.stand on that -- in each stitch and see. I voted blank which is why I'm

:48:50. > :48:54.standing now and very firmly against his policies. Millions of people

:48:55. > :48:59.voted blank today and the turnout was lower than it was in the first

:49:00. > :49:04.round. Quite a few digits lower than the first round of the 2012

:49:05. > :49:08.presidential election. I'm joined by a cyber security experts. I'm glad

:49:09. > :49:14.you're here because we've been skirting around the elephant in the

:49:15. > :49:20.room, this huge dump of e-mails and messages we got on Friday evening

:49:21. > :49:26.just ahead of the vote, a hack of Mr Macron's servers and computers,

:49:27. > :49:32.circulated widely on the web. What do you know about who was involved

:49:33. > :49:35.and where it came from? It is always very difficult if not impossible to

:49:36. > :49:44.do any attribution when it comes to cyber war. This is obviously an act

:49:45. > :49:53.of cyber war. What we know so far is that some of them are fake and some

:49:54. > :49:56.have nothing to do with Macron, they are from 2002 before Macron did

:49:57. > :50:05.anything with politics. And the rest of the files, so far, nothing has

:50:06. > :50:11.come out... You say that some of this was taken from the servers, but

:50:12. > :50:15.as Mr Macron said on Friday, it was released one hour before the purdah,

:50:16. > :50:19.so it was pretty cynical, released when he wouldn't be able to react.

:50:20. > :50:27.You say that some of the documents mixed in work. A fake? Definitely,

:50:28. > :50:33.there is proof of that, meta data inside the Excel files, they were

:50:34. > :50:39.tampered with. So you think it has come from the Russian group, the

:50:40. > :50:43.Fancy Bears group involved in the Clinton hack? No, they are high end

:50:44. > :50:50.professionals who wouldn't make such an obvious mistake. This is

:50:51. > :50:55.amateurish or an obvious false flag. We don't know, but it isn't the work

:50:56. > :51:01.of a high end professional making his own fortified files. This is a

:51:02. > :51:11.very tricky matter and I condemn such tricks -- making his own

:51:12. > :51:16.falsified files. I condemn these kind of things because it isn't

:51:17. > :51:20.acceptable. It is the new reality, isn't it? It happened to Hillary

:51:21. > :51:26.Clinton's campaign, the server in Podesta was hacked and e-mails

:51:27. > :51:33.circulated. Is this the new normal? We must condemn and defend ourselves

:51:34. > :51:40.against such methods because I think it is hurting our democracies and I

:51:41. > :51:45.think it is very dangerous for everyone and that's why I would say

:51:46. > :51:50.on this point that I support Macron. It wasn't just the e-mails that were

:51:51. > :51:54.released, it was these fake documents circulated earlier in the

:51:55. > :52:02.week about his fake account in the Bahamas, a different story. We can

:52:03. > :52:07.relate this to propaganda, there is a serial number in the file. It is

:52:08. > :52:17.very amateur work. It is coming from an old right group in America. --

:52:18. > :52:22.alt right group. They were very amateur and this had nothing to do

:52:23. > :52:27.with what Clinton faced, which was extremely sophisticated and powered

:52:28. > :52:34.by incredible technologies. The same with Brexit, there is a nice piece

:52:35. > :52:39.this morning about democracy being hijacked explaining the

:52:40. > :52:45.technological aspect. What we are seeing in France is going low-tech

:52:46. > :52:47.in comparison. The hack, the release was not sophisticated but what

:52:48. > :52:55.happened when the information was out, these bots worsening at around

:52:56. > :53:02.the world very quickly. Far quicker than you could lose it -- far

:53:03. > :53:06.quicker than you could do it. -- worked sending it around the world.

:53:07. > :53:16.It was illegal to publish the details in France. French phrase

:53:17. > :53:22.book was censored and -- the French Facebook was censored, most modern

:53:23. > :53:26.states have the tools to do information warfare. The other

:53:27. > :53:39.phenomenon is that there is what they call suppression, targeting

:53:40. > :53:47.opposition voters, targeting Melenchon voters, suppressing the

:53:48. > :53:49.vote of other candidates. It did not influence the vote of the French

:53:50. > :54:03.because everybody knew that something was against

:54:04. > :54:12.Macron. Trying to be very aggressive against a candidate, and by

:54:13. > :54:18.publishing fake news like that, people are not that silly. It did

:54:19. > :54:21.not influence the French vote this time perhaps but what about the

:54:22. > :54:25.applications for the German election around the corner and other

:54:26. > :54:32.elections? It depends, either they will face the same things that the

:54:33. > :54:38.English -based during Brexit and the US faced when Trump was elected, a

:54:39. > :54:42.really high end technology propaganda machine or the same thing

:54:43. > :54:48.we faced in France which is basic, amateurish leaking and that will not

:54:49. > :54:56.have a real impact unless it reveals something. In France, you must see

:54:57. > :55:01.that the leaks did not receive any -- did not reveal anything about

:55:02. > :55:05.Macron. Do the media report what is out there because it has been put

:55:06. > :55:12.out or do you take a stand and ignore it? I think it is more

:55:13. > :55:19.important to ignore this kind of thing. That won't happen in reality.

:55:20. > :55:25.In France, it is the law, you are not allowed to say anything in this

:55:26. > :55:33.specific period. Tomorrow, if there is another league, the media will

:55:34. > :55:42.jump on it -- if there is another leak. Doesn't the Louvre look

:55:43. > :55:46.resplendent? You will recognise the pyramid and the stage to the right

:55:47. > :55:49.is where we expect Emmanuel Macron to appear in front of thousands of

:55:50. > :55:51.supporters and we will bring you that as soon as it happens. You are

:55:52. > :56:08.watching BBC News. Here is a round-up of the other

:56:09. > :56:14.stories. Labour says it will not raise income

:56:15. > :56:18.tax for anyone earning less than ?80,000 a year as part

:56:19. > :56:21.of an election pledge The Shadow Chancellor,

:56:22. > :56:25.John McDonnell, said those earning over the ?80,000 threshold would be

:56:26. > :56:27.asked to pay "a bit more" The Conservatives say they have no

:56:28. > :56:32.PLAN to raise income tax but have so far refused to completely

:56:33. > :56:34.rule it out. Our Political Correspondent

:56:35. > :56:35.Ben Wright reports. It was a slogan used

:56:36. > :56:38.by Tony Blair, now revived Setting out what he called a big

:56:39. > :56:42.deal to upgrade the economy, John McDonnell promised not to raise

:56:43. > :56:45.VAT or national insurance for anyone, but said the top 5%

:56:46. > :56:53.of earners would pay more. If Labour is elected next month,

:56:54. > :57:00.we will guarantee for the next five years, there will be no income tax

:57:01. > :57:03.rises, for all those earning less Labour is now the party of low taxes

:57:04. > :57:10.for middle and lower earners. Mr McDonnell said people earning

:57:11. > :57:13.more than ?80,000 a year would pay a modest amount more but the rates

:57:14. > :57:16.and details would have The Conservatives have promised not

:57:17. > :57:24.to raise VAT but have so far made no matching pledge on national

:57:25. > :57:26.insurance or income tax. Today, the Tories said Labour

:57:27. > :57:30.was going back to the past. They want to raise taxes,

:57:31. > :57:36.they want to penalise business, they want to penalise wealth

:57:37. > :57:38.creation and I think they will end up wrecking the economy

:57:39. > :57:41.as they have done in the past. The total amount of income

:57:42. > :57:45.tax raised in 2016 is The top 5% of UK earners, Labour's

:57:46. > :57:53.target group for tax rises, paid just over 47% of that,

:57:54. > :57:58.close to ?80 billion. You cannot make a really big change

:57:59. > :58:01.to the amount of money that is available just by focusing

:58:02. > :58:06.on people over 80,000 a year, partly because they already pay

:58:07. > :58:13.an awful lot of tax and a lot more than they did a few years ago,

:58:14. > :58:17.but partly because if you really want significant amounts of money,

:58:18. > :58:19.you have to do something the politicians don't like doing,

:58:20. > :58:22.which is hit the majority of people, which is where VAT and the national

:58:23. > :58:25.insurance and a lot of income You are pledging to increase tax

:58:26. > :58:29.on high earners have to pay for public services and borrow

:58:30. > :58:31.billions for infrastructure, but that has been Labour's message

:58:32. > :58:34.since Jeremy Corbyn became leader. Why do you think it can turn things

:58:35. > :58:37.around for Labour in the last four weeks of this general election

:58:38. > :58:40.campaign when it seems it I think there is an opportunity now

:58:41. > :58:44.in the general election campaign which we have not had before since

:58:45. > :58:49.Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader. I think we can turn the polls around

:58:50. > :58:52.and I genuinely think we can secure Many of the bankers and financiers

:58:53. > :58:59.who work here would pay more income tax under Labour's plan and this

:59:00. > :59:01.is the first general election for many years,

:59:02. > :59:04.when there is a stark choice developing between Labour

:59:05. > :59:06.and the Conservatives with how the economy should be run and how

:59:07. > :59:15.money should be raised and spent. The Liberal Democrats

:59:16. > :59:19.say their manifesto will include a commitment to keep

:59:20. > :59:21.the "triple lock" on pensions. This would guarantee they rise

:59:22. > :59:26.by as much as wages, inflation or 2.5%,

:59:27. > :59:31.whichever is highest. But pensioners with annual incomes

:59:32. > :59:33.above ?45,000 would lose Labour has also pledged

:59:34. > :59:36.to retain the triple lock; Theresa May has declined to say

:59:37. > :59:38.whether the Conservatives More than 80 Nigerian

:59:39. > :59:42.schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram

:59:43. > :59:45.have met the country's president after being freed

:59:46. > :59:49.in a prisoner swap. The girls from Chibok

:59:50. > :59:51.were among more than 200 The government says they'll be given

:59:52. > :59:55.medical checks before being reunited Around 100 others

:59:56. > :59:58.are still being held. That s

:59:59. > :00:01.all from me for now - let's return to Paris

:00:02. > :00:25.and rejoin Christian Fraser. Hello and welcome to a BBC News

:00:26. > :00:28.French election special. We are focusing on the presidential

:00:29. > :00:33.elections. I am Christian praise in Paris. The news is that the French

:00:34. > :00:37.have chosen Emmanuel Macron to become the next president. At 39 the

:00:38. > :00:42.centrist party leader will be the youngest leader of France since

:00:43. > :00:47.1848. He has beaten the far right candidate Marine Le Pen and has

:00:48. > :00:51.taken more than 65% of the vote. According to the latest projected

:00:52. > :00:55.results. These are life pictures of the Louvre or, where thousands of

:00:56. > :01:02.people have gathered and isn't it looking resplendent in the

:01:03. > :01:12.spotlight. We expect him to be on stage in the next ten or 15 minutes.

:01:13. > :01:21.Gilles has joined me on the balcony, the author of Terror In France I am

:01:22. > :01:28.pleased to say that the election has passed off well apart from some

:01:29. > :01:32.incidents. Unfortunately one policeman was killed on the

:01:33. > :01:38.Champs-Elysees just before the first round but nevertheless in the last

:01:39. > :01:42.six months we had no successful attack because it was nipped in the

:01:43. > :01:46.bud by the French police establishment which finally broke

:01:47. > :01:53.the codes to a large extent of this third-generation jihad in Europe. We

:01:54. > :01:57.had over 230 people who died between the Charlie Hebdo attack in January

:01:58. > :02:05.2015 and this poor Catholic priest who was stabbed to death in July

:02:06. > :02:11.2016 in Normandy. Had that gone on, then the elections would have been

:02:12. > :02:16.the hostage of... So in that sense the police have done a good job?

:02:17. > :02:21.Definitely. We have many other things to fix, the judiciary, the

:02:22. > :02:25.prisons on the big incubator for jihadism, because when they are in

:02:26. > :02:36.jail they close to lies and they make more delinquents. Everywhere in

:02:37. > :02:41.Italy the French case is apparent time. Why is that wit that we have

:02:42. > :02:46.so many attacks and how did we manage to deal with it to some

:02:47. > :02:51.extent. But also lessons for Britain because one of the bloodiest attacks

:02:52. > :02:55.recently was the attack on Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Although

:02:56. > :02:57.there is always a debate about whether somebody like that is what

:02:58. > :03:06.you would call a jihadist all psycho. Someone with anger issues.

:03:07. > :03:11.It is a blend of both, definitely. But this is part and parcel of the

:03:12. > :03:16.vocabulary of jihad. And you could have another attack for another

:03:17. > :03:19.reason. This takes place within that frame of mind and you have to

:03:20. > :03:26.understand how it functions, you have to read the text, the doctrine

:03:27. > :03:30.of the jihadism, you have to try to put that together and this is one of

:03:31. > :03:36.the big challenges for Europe in general. You've done plenty in

:03:37. > :03:41.Europe advising the last few governments on the jihadists threat.

:03:42. > :03:46.They never really listened! Not much. What do you make of this man

:03:47. > :03:51.we are about to see on stage, Marine Le Pen says he is weak on terror and

:03:52. > :03:57.weak on security. Not really. She knew very well that the more attacks

:03:58. > :04:01.that would have happened, the more votes you would have had. She had

:04:02. > :04:09.nothing to do but shut her mouth after that because she was very much

:04:10. > :04:19.aware of that. She didn't have much to do except to say that she would

:04:20. > :04:22.expel everybody from France. Emmanuel Macron walking out to the

:04:23. > :04:31.theme tune of the European Union, interestingly. Coming down the steps

:04:32. > :04:35.of the Louvre, looking a bit presidential and slightly sombre, on

:04:36. > :04:41.his own, which is interesting, not with Brigitte alongside him. It is

:04:42. > :04:46.worth reminding you just how far he has come in such a short space of

:04:47. > :04:50.time. Just 39, he was of course educated at one of the Ivy League

:04:51. > :04:58.universities in Paris and then he went to the prestigious ENA which is

:04:59. > :05:02.the classic training ground for the political elite in France. Then he

:05:03. > :05:13.went to Rothschild and worked as an investment banker. He was quite

:05:14. > :05:16.influential in the Nestle-Pfizer deal, you made quite a bit of money

:05:17. > :05:20.out of that and came to the attention of Francois Hollande. For

:05:21. > :05:23.some years he was then an economic adviser to the new president and

:05:24. > :05:28.then of course became economy minister. Tried his best in the two

:05:29. > :05:32.years that he was in that office to put through some liberalising

:05:33. > :05:35.policies of the French economy that was really defeated by the left of

:05:36. > :05:41.his party and also by the people on the street, the Macron law as it

:05:42. > :05:45.became called was watered down quite significantly. And perhaps it was

:05:46. > :05:51.the frustration of that that led him to break from the Socialist party,

:05:52. > :05:55.taking a gamble at such a young age to become a centrist leader of, it

:05:56. > :06:02.isn't even a party, it's a movement, En Marche. And in the next few weeks

:06:03. > :06:06.he's got to create a party out of the many supporters that you will

:06:07. > :06:12.see here tonight. Up and down the country knew people will be coming

:06:13. > :06:17.into politics, he's got to find a majority of 289 out of 577 deputies

:06:18. > :06:22.and there are plenty of people who think that will be quite a tough

:06:23. > :06:27.ask. Particularly since, as such a new party, he doesn't really have

:06:28. > :06:29.the finance to take on the bigger parties, the Socialists and the

:06:30. > :06:36.Republicans who were defeated in the first round. Gilles, you have long

:06:37. > :06:45.watched things like this, what do you make of the long walk from the

:06:46. > :06:48.Louvre to the stage? Nobody would have bet a nickel on him one year

:06:49. > :06:53.ago, and I remember many people in the French establishment saying,

:06:54. > :07:01.Emmanuel Macron has the brains but he should try his luck in 2022 or

:07:02. > :07:08.2027, rather than this election. And here he is and the victory was, many

:07:09. > :07:15.people say this is for the French but he got close to 66% of the votes

:07:16. > :07:19.which is quite an achievement. Interesting, such a freshfaced young

:07:20. > :07:24.man, it is interesting that before he came here he made this rather

:07:25. > :07:30.sober speech at his headquarters, making sure that he spoke to

:07:31. > :07:35.everyone in France because this has been a divisive debate. Absolutely.

:07:36. > :07:39.And the big challenge for him now is that he has the majority, to

:07:40. > :07:43.implement his policy of the parliamentary elections, which will

:07:44. > :07:53.take place in June. And this is going to be a real problem because

:07:54. > :08:01.he has the right wing is broken, there is no Socialist party animal.

:08:02. > :08:05.So he has still -- no party any more. So he has two bills of this

:08:06. > :08:10.majority, and definitely he's very young. He's the youngest chief of

:08:11. > :08:15.state we've had since Napoleon Bonaparte which may not be good news

:08:16. > :08:24.for the Brits! You becoming after as! -- he will be coming after us!

:08:25. > :08:30.Talking seriously about it, you had the Brexit vote. The Yankees had the

:08:31. > :08:34.Trump phot... I must just interrupt you for a second because he's going

:08:35. > :08:34.to speak. We'll come back to that Napoleon Bonaparte thought!

:08:35. > :08:59.CHANTING TRANSLATION: Thank you, my friends!

:09:00. > :09:06.Thank you, to you, for being here this evening. You are tens of

:09:07. > :09:16.thousands and I can only see a few faces. Thank you. Thank you for

:09:17. > :09:26.being here. Thank you for having fought with courage but kindness for

:09:27. > :09:40.so many months, because it's true, tonight, you won. Franz won.

:09:41. > :09:52.What we have done for so many months there's no comparison, there's no

:09:53. > :09:56.equivalent to that. Everyone was saying to us, it is impossible. But

:09:57. > :10:11.they didn't know anything about Franz! -- about

:10:12. > :10:19.France. Thank you for your commitment, thank you to all of you.

:10:20. > :10:23.Thank you for the risks that some of you have taken. I know about it. And

:10:24. > :10:28.your trust, something that creates an obligation for me, and something

:10:29. > :10:33.that I feel you have interested in me and I don't want to disappoint

:10:34. > :10:49.you. I want to be worthy of your trust. And for the five years to

:10:50. > :11:02.come I want to carry the elan and the dynamism that you present. And

:11:03. > :11:06.tonight I would also like to say something for the French people who

:11:07. > :11:12.voted for me without necessarily sharing my ideas. You committed

:11:13. > :11:18.yourself, and I know that it is not that obvious, and I would like to

:11:19. > :11:23.say something for people who voted merely because they wanted to

:11:24. > :11:29.protect and defend the Republic. In the face of extremism. I know that

:11:30. > :11:35.there are disagreements and I will respect this. And I will be faithful

:11:36. > :11:49.to that commitment taken. I will protect the Republic. And I would

:11:50. > :11:57.also like to say something to voted for Marine Le Pen. You mustn't shout

:11:58. > :12:11.because they did express today the rage, the loss and the convictions

:12:12. > :12:14.in some cases and I do respect that. And I will do my utmost for the five

:12:15. > :12:26.years to come to make sure that they don't have any reason to vote for an

:12:27. > :12:33.extremism position ever again. Tonight there's only all the people

:12:34. > :12:38.of France, gathered together, and what you represent tonight here in

:12:39. > :12:41.the Louvre, I mean it's a fervour, and enthusiasm, it is the energy of

:12:42. > :12:54.the population and the people of France. And this place where we find

:12:55. > :13:00.ourselves together tonight, that's what it expresses. It is the

:13:01. > :13:06.expression of our history, until the time of the liberation of Paris, the

:13:07. > :13:09.French Revolution and it is the example of that pyramid, the

:13:10. > :13:23.location, the place, where all the people of France this place, the

:13:24. > :13:26.embodiment of France, the fans that everybody is looking at because

:13:27. > :13:41.today it's Europe, it's the whole world looking at us. Europe and the

:13:42. > :13:43.world. Expecting for us to defend everywhere the Enlightenment which

:13:44. > :13:50.has been threatened in so many places. They expect us to defend

:13:51. > :13:58.everywhere freedoms to protect people who are oppressed, they

:13:59. > :14:07.expect from us to bring forth a new Hope, a new form of humanism. A

:14:08. > :14:11.safer world. A world of freedom that was fought for, a world of growth, a

:14:12. > :14:17.world where there is more justice. We ecology is respected. They expect

:14:18. > :14:32.from us to be at long last what we are ourselves. The task awaiting us

:14:33. > :14:40.my fellow citizens is an enormous task. And it is a task that is going

:14:41. > :14:47.to start tomorrow. Which will impose on us to moralise public life. To

:14:48. > :14:53.defend our democratic vitality. To reinforce our economy and to build

:14:54. > :15:00.up the new protections that are necessary for the world around us

:15:01. > :15:05.and to give to all and sundry the place through work, to study,

:15:06. > :15:09.through culture, to refund our Europe and to guarantee the security

:15:10. > :15:24.of all the people of France. The task that awaits us. It is a

:15:25. > :15:31.colossal task. Yes of course tonight we want a right that entails

:15:32. > :15:41.obligations, that audacity will carry on and every day it will carry

:15:42. > :15:45.an because that is expected by all the people of Europe and the world

:15:46. > :15:51.and that is what is expected from us. They expect that once again,

:15:52. > :16:00.France is a country of surprise, a country that is faithful to itself

:16:01. > :16:05.and that is what we will do. Our task is enormous, my friends. And it

:16:06. > :16:14.is going to require the commitment of all of us. The commitment of our

:16:15. > :16:18.Armed Forces and police, all the public services, your commitment,

:16:19. > :16:25.the commitment of all of you, people who have been elected, who are the

:16:26. > :16:30.head of charities, at the head of trade Unions, who are civil

:16:31. > :16:40.servants, who are tradesmen, farmers, bosses, students,

:16:41. > :16:46.pensioners... Our task is enormous. And the task will require that we

:16:47. > :16:54.are truthful, that we need to have the courage of truth. The courage we

:16:55. > :16:57.put forward throughout the campaign, and will carry on putting it

:16:58. > :17:05.forward, I will carry on putting it forward for you. Our task is

:17:06. > :17:10.enormous and it will impose that which we built from tomorrow

:17:11. > :17:17.onwards, real majority, strong majority. A majority centred on

:17:18. > :17:22.change. That is what the country is dreaming of and that is what the

:17:23. > :17:27.country deserves. A majority centred on change, that is exactly what I'm

:17:28. > :17:39.expecting from you in the weeks to come because once again, and many

:17:40. > :17:48.times, I will need you. My fellow citizens. All of you, men, women,

:17:49. > :17:55.present here by my side, for so many days and so many nights, the people

:17:56. > :18:02.of France gathered here today in the Louvre, we have the strength, we

:18:03. > :18:09.have the energy, we have the will, the will that has carried us

:18:10. > :18:15.forward, that has made us what we are and that is what will lead our

:18:16. > :18:25.future. We will not be the victims of fear. We will not back down in

:18:26. > :18:32.the face of division or lies. We will not cede any ground to sarcasm,

:18:33. > :18:40.irony, to the fascination for defeat or decline. I know that fervour that

:18:41. > :18:45.you carry within you, and I know what I owe you, and I know tonight

:18:46. > :18:50.what I owe to the people that supported me, my friends, my family,

:18:51. > :19:16.and the people close to me. It is not going to be easy everyday,

:19:17. > :19:23.I know that. The task is going to be arduous. But every time, every time

:19:24. > :19:29.I will tell you the truth. But your fervour, your energy, your courage

:19:30. > :19:39.always is something that is going to carry me forth. I will protect you

:19:40. > :19:47.in the face of threats, and I will fight for you on your behalf against

:19:48. > :19:56.inefficiency, against lies, to improve the life of all of us. And I

:19:57. > :20:00.will respect each one of you, in what they think, in what they

:20:01. > :20:05.believe, in what they want to defend. And I will gather together

:20:06. > :20:12.and I will reconcile because I want the unity of our people and our

:20:13. > :20:24.country, and finally, my friends, I will be at your service. With

:20:25. > :20:31.modesty, humility, with strength, I will be at your service on behalf of

:20:32. > :20:46.our motto, liberty, equality, fraternity. I will be in your

:20:47. > :20:53.service and at your service. Being faithful to the trust that you have

:20:54. > :20:57.put in me and I will be at your service with love for you all. Long

:20:58. > :21:04.live the Republic and long live France!

:21:05. > :21:29.CHEERING STUDIO: There is Emmanuel Macron,

:21:30. > :21:33.president elect of France aged 39, an extraordinary achievement.

:21:34. > :21:36.Alongside his wife Brigitte, taking the adoration of the thousands who

:21:37. > :21:44.are tonight in the Louvre were, in front of the pyramid. Very sober and

:21:45. > :21:47.serious speech. He mentioned, you will have noticed, on several

:21:48. > :21:53.occasions, the enormous task that he is facing in the five years ahead,

:21:54. > :21:57.plenty of people in France will agree with that. The country says he

:21:58. > :22:02.is dreaming of change, crucially, he is trying to unite the country, he

:22:03. > :22:06.says he respects the rage and anger of the Le Pen camp. Lots of young

:22:07. > :22:11.people are coming onto the stage with him. This really is a young

:22:12. > :22:14.movement. For months, there have been young people in sweatshirts

:22:15. > :22:21.standing and sitting in Macron offices around the country, pulling

:22:22. > :22:24.in payments from people, small payments, in fact they hired a

:22:25. > :22:27.company that had worked for president Obama in the United States

:22:28. > :22:31.to help them get the party of the ground. And it is those small

:22:32. > :22:35.contributions that have really brought them to this point.

:22:36. > :22:43.Contributions from all around the country. Now they are playing the

:22:44. > :23:25.French national anthem, La Marseillaise.

:23:26. > :23:31.And you probably saw the president elect closing his eyes and putting

:23:32. > :23:36.his hand to his chest. He can probably hardly believe what has

:23:37. > :23:45.happened to him in the last year, from political obscurity, really, to

:23:46. > :23:56.the highest job in the land, Gilles. He is the Gilles of French politics.

:23:57. > :24:01.What we saw in America and in Britain was that the election was

:24:02. > :24:06.the opposite movement to one, the Brexit movement who won in Britain,

:24:07. > :24:10.and a strongly European candidate who won in France. The European

:24:11. > :24:14.movement may be dysfunctional, yet the French believe that their future

:24:15. > :24:18.lies within the European Union and there is no alternative. So this is

:24:19. > :24:25.something that means blood and tears probably and a lot of difficulties

:24:26. > :24:29.in the future but nevertheless it is their choice. You saw him kissing a

:24:30. > :24:34.little girl, he doesn't have any children of his own love his wife

:24:35. > :24:40.has three from her former marriage and he has seven grandchildren that

:24:41. > :24:44.he says his family. One of his wife's daughters has worked with him

:24:45. > :24:48.on the campaign so there's obviously a close bond between her children

:24:49. > :24:52.and the president elect. It looks like it and this is part of the

:24:53. > :24:57.interest in Macron because he is anti-climactic in the way he's let

:24:58. > :25:00.his life. His wife is not the traditional housewife, to say the

:25:01. > :25:12.least, and she forms striking contrast with your former

:25:13. > :25:17.compatriot, Penelope Fillon. Penelope stayed at home waiting for

:25:18. > :25:19.her husband in Greek mythology. Brigitte writes his speeches and is

:25:20. > :25:25.very much involved in the background. She is an inspiring

:25:26. > :25:31.figure to a number of women who can identify with her because she is

:25:32. > :25:33.part and parcel of the political environment, his political

:25:34. > :25:37.environment and I believe this is extremely important. This is

:25:38. > :25:45.creating a totally new figure for French politics. Now, will he

:25:46. > :25:50.managed to win his bed and when the parliamentary election? We will see.

:25:51. > :25:52.This is the big question -- when his bet. Thank you both very much, stay

:25:53. > :26:10.with us, more to come. Hello, there. Plenty of different

:26:11. > :26:13.features that can affect our weather, cloud amends, rainfall, Sun

:26:14. > :26:14.Chang, wind direction,