“The third round starts tonight.
“ From his HQ, the third man of the presidential Jean-Luc Mélenchon, spoke shortly after the announcement of the results.
The defeat of Marine Le Pen "is very good news for the unity of our people", began the rebellious leader, while stressing that "Emmanuel Macron is the most poorly elected of the presidents of the Fifth Republic".
The unsuccessful candidate, who failed to win the second round with 420,000 votes, immediately turned to the legislative battle, repeating his call to be "elected" Prime Minister after the elections of June 12 and 19. next.
“You can beat Mr. Macron and choose another path (…) Another world is still possible if you elect a majority of deputies from the new popular union.
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Re-election of Macron: for Mélenchon, "the third round begins tonight"
Yannick Jadot, for his part, reacted on Twitter, thanking "all those who blocked the far right".
"The worst is avoided but the country is more divided than ever," warned the former environmentalist candidate.
Valérie Pécresse sends her “republican congratulations” to Emmanuel Macron
"We have avoided the worst and now let's build the best", launched Fabien Roussel in a speech.
Alerting to "the unprecedented result" of Marine Le Pen, the communist called for a "global agreement" with the other forces of the left for the June ballot.
On the right, the former Les Républicains candidate Valérie Pécresse sent her “Republican congratulations” to Emmanuel Macron via Twitter, while warning: “Her victory must not hide the fractures of our country leading Marine Le Pen to an unprecedented score.
The president of the party, Christian Jacob estimated that "there has never been such a vote of despair in France".
Éric Zemmour expressed his "disappointment" and his "sadness" after Emmanuel Macron's victory.
And the former Reconquest candidate to promise to be "at the forefront of the fight to fight step by step against the work of destruction of France led by Emmanuel Macron".
"This is the eighth time that the defeat has struck the name of Le Pen", he attacked before calling for a union of the "national bloc" in the legislative elections.
