PARIS (Reuters, France) – President Emmanuel Macron won Marine Le Pen’s far-right challenger by a wide margin. But he didn’t show triumphalism. He acknowledged the widespread discontent, and everyone turned their attention to June’s parliamentary vote.

Macron took 58.54% of votes. This is far below the 66.1% win against Le Pen during their 2017 first duel, and far away from the 82% conservative Jacques Chirac had with him in 2002, when France rallied behind him as the far-right made it into the second round.

“Many people in this country voted to me because they wanted to stop the far-right from taking power.” “I want to say thank you to them all and I know that I owe them something in the future,” Macron declared in his late-night victory speech.

Because our country is beset with many questions, divisions and doubts, we will have to be kind and considerate.

Le Figaro, a conservative newspaper wrote Monday’s main editorial: “In reality, the marble statue was a giant with clay feet. Emmanuel Macron understands this and will not be able to benefit from grace periods.

Jean-Luc Melenchon of hard left identifies the June 12 and 19 parliamentary elections as a third round of presidential election. Opposition parties from all political stripes hope they will win.

“The French political landscape needs to be reconstructed. Vincent Mortier, Chief Investment Officer at Amundi, said that the majority of those who emerge from the parliamentary election will determine economic policy.