French election: Emmanuel Macron wins presidency by decisive margin

Centrist independent on course for victory by 65% to 35% margin but Marine Le Pen’s defeat still marks historically high vote for France’s far rightFrench election 2017: second round – liveResults tracker – as they come in The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency in a decisive victory over the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, and vowed to unite a divided and fractured France.Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “