France’s incumbent President Emmanuel Macron garnered 56.54% of the vote in the presidential election runoff after 90% of the ballots were counted, according to preliminary data published by the Interior Ministry on its website on Sunday, TASS reports.
Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally party, has so far mustered 43.46%.
Earlier, Le Pen called her rival to congratulate him on the victory. While speaking at a rally of her supporters Le Pen described her performance as a historic success for the party and vowed to carry on fighting during the parliamentary elections scheduled for the summer.