French voters in Slovakia elected Macron

Mr. Macron, though the victor of the presidential election on Sunday, could be facing an uphill battle next month as many doubt his new party, Le Republique En Marche!, will be able to form a majority in the National Assembly.

“I will be a candidate for the presidential majority”, the 54-year-old Valls told RTL radio, while insisting he remained a Socialist and “a man of the left”.

Macron has said he is aiming for an absolute majority in the lower chamber in June’s elections.

Macron’s camp has said the names of Macron’s 577 candidates for the legislative elections will be announced on Thursday.

The president-elect is left-leaning – a one-time Socialist party member – and was a senior advisor to Hollande and an economy minister in his government 2014-2016. “It needs to move forward”.

Unknown three years ago, Macron is poised to become one of Europe’s most powerful leaders, bringing with him a hugely ambitious agenda of political and economic reform for France and the EU.

Japanese government officials have expressed relief at the victory of independent centrist Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential election over his far-right rival, as they see it as a sign that the French public has confidence in the EU.

While some world leaders such as British Prime Minister Theresa May, US President Donald Trump (though he had earlier backed Le Pen) and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping extended their congratulations to Macron nearly immediately, one of the most interesting well wishes came on Monday morning from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Emmanuel Macron steps into his new role as France’s President-elect.

If Mr Macron’s party performs poorly, he could also be forced to form a coalition, a common occurrence in many European countries but something very unusual in France.

Macron’s party now has no seats in parliament. “He said Europe and the world are “watching us” and waiting for us to deend the spirit of the Enlightenment, threatened in so many places”.

To discuss the victory of Emmanuel Macron and the future of France following the contentious election, CGTN’s Elaine Reyes spoke to Michael Kimmage, Transatlantic Academy Fellow for the German Marshall Fund.

The main right-wing party, The Republicans, is also striving to come to terms with the new political landscape and will be working to try to cling on to its dominant role too.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Sunday congratulated on Macron’s election victory, saying he was happy that “the French have chosen European future”.

An estimation by research firm Elabe for BFMTV show that Macron won the presidential race with 65.9 percent of votes, while Le Pen scored 34.1 percent.