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Macron wins 65.68 pct of vote in French presidential race: Interior Ministry

Xinhua, May 8, 2017 Adjust font size:

Centrist Emmanuel Macron won 65.68 percent of the votes cast in the runoff of the French presidential election on Sunday, according to the overall results published on Monday by the French Interior Ministry.

The result makes the 39-year-old former economy minster the eighth president of the French Fifth Republic, and the youngest one ever.

With 34.32 percent of the vote, his rival Marine Le Pen garnered the support of more than 10 million voters, a stunning record for her far-right party National Front.

With nearly 47 million registered voters, the turnout, excluding French overseas territories, was registered at 75.34 percent in the second round, lower compared with 78.69 percent in the first around on April 23 and 80.35 percent in the runoff vote in 2012, the published data show.

The official results are to be announced soon by the French Constitutional Council. Endi