(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French Presidential Election, defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Mr. Macron won by 66.06% to 33.94% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest President.
Mr. Macron will also become the first President from outside the two traditional main parties since the modern republic’s foundation in 1958.
He said that a new page was being turned in French history. “I want it to be a page of hope and renewed trust,” he said.
