Macron's win is a relief to the West, but a historic far-right vote signals a looming threat.
Emmanuel Macron will serve a second term as the president of France -- the first person to do so since 2002 -- pollsters have projected.
His victory over right-wing rival Marine Le Pen by a relatively comfortable margin of 58.8% to 41.2% will be met with a huge sigh of relief in the capital cities of France's most prominent allies -- most notably in Brussels, home of the European Union and NATO.
While Macron was always the favorite to win this race, the Russian invasion of Ukraine for many highlighted the need for Western unity in the face of aggression from a belligerent who seeks to undermine it. Among NATO allies and the EU, that unity has more or less stuck during the crisis, but officials feared a Le Pen victory could rock the trans-Atlantic relationship.
Le Pen could almost be purpose built as someone leaders of the Western alliance would least like running a country as important as France.
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