By Walter Nicklin, Paris
Cool and sunny. That’s the weather in Paris the morning after the first round of the Presidential elections. That also seems to capture the mood: cool and sunny. Among the normal crowds along the Seine as well as the outer arrondissements, there is no sense of “morning-after” shock, as had been the post-Presidential-election case in the United States last November. For unlike in the U.S., the national polls pretty much predicted what would happen.
With ballots still being counted, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen were the clear winners in a crowded field of 11 Presidential candidates.
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