Outgoing President Francois Hollande was with President-elect Emmanuel Macron at a World War 2 commemoration in Paris on Monday. At 39, Macron is the youngest French president in modern history. He has never held elected office.<\/b>
\nThere is a changing of the guard in France.
Outgoing President Francois Hollande was with President-elect Emmanuel Macron at a World War 2 commemoration in Paris on Monday. At 39, Macron is the youngest French president in modern history. He has never held elected office.
\u201cIt\u2019 s unprecedented and unheard of, \u201d political analyst Christian Mallard told Fox News, \u201cwe are in a new political landscape which is shaping up.\u201d
Macron’s performance at his victory celebration Sunday night was quite professional, concluding a campaign that saw the former investment banker create his own party and a reform platform.
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\u201cYouth is probably an asset without a doubt, \u201d Mallard noted, \u201c but he doesn\u2019 t have that much experience.\u201d
He won with some 66 per cent of the vote in the run-off election. His far right rival Marine LePen got 34 per cent.
LePen did receive some ten and a half million votes, twice as much as her last presidential result. But her polarizing rhetoric, in part, did her in.
\u201cIt\u2019s a defeat, \u201d Mallard said, \u201d it\u2019s a resounding defeat.\u201d
In fact, one third of an unsettled French electorate voted for no one at all. This, after rejecting the major parties in the first round. And many who voted for Macron did so as a vote against LePen.
When asked if they thought Macron would do a good job, one Parisian responded warily, \u201cI hope so.\u201d
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Another told Fox, \u201cFor me it\u2019s hope. Maybe for something new. He needs energy for ‚renovation\u2019 .\u201d
Clashes with police in a Paris neighborhood Sunday night underscored the challenges Macron faces as he forms a government, fields candidates for legislative elections, and tries to get his reforms through.
The question for all, \u201d analyst Mallard posed, also warily, \u201cWill Macron be able to face all the challenges ahead?\u201d
Outside of France, at least, there was relief, with Macron’s pro-EU and pro-NATO stances reassuring a concerned international community.
At upcoming summits, Macron gets to meet another „outsider“ turned leader… President Trump.
Greg Palkot currently serves as a London-based senior foreign affairs correspondent for Fox News Channel (FNC) . He joined the network in 1998 as a correspondent. Follow him on Twitter@GregPalkot.<\/p>\n

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