security come to regions like this, the visits are not announced until after the officials have left the country. perhaps that s what we re waiting for. video or information coming out of that meeting until after those u.s. officials leave. that s going to be the top headline tonight that we re still looking out for. it will. keep us posted. matt rivers, thank you so much. let s get back to our breaking news. the historic election in france. cnn s diplomatic editor nic robertson is with us. nic, what will this mean, a victory for macron, or potentially a defeat? yeah. the incumbent macron gets reelected 58.2% to le pen, the populist right winger got 41.8%. so clearly trailing a long way behind macron. macron the first french president to be reelected. each president can have up to two five-year terms. he s the first president, french president to be reelected in 20 years. so pulling off something of a
speech, ecstatic. this was a campaign that looked set after the first round of voting to be incredit wli tight. just two percentage points divided macron from his challenger and to those starkly different visions of france. that s why the last two weeks have been so closely watched and that s why also tonight in that crowd at the 58.2%, that flashed up on the screen a while ago, there was huge a great deal of real relief. because what you see in this crowd are french flags being raised. but also european flags. bear in mind, this was an election about much more than the future of france itself. it was the future of europe itself. given how different macron and le pen s visions are. you expect the french president to arrive shortly to make his speech in what we expect we ll hear is something we ve heard a lot from the french president in the past couple weeks. this is a path who is well-liked
pre eminence has grown, so a victory for him tonight will be greeted by a relief for many, in brussels, certainly, for those who are eurosceptics will be disappointed by the results. just eurosceptics will be disappointed by the results. , , ., the results. just we were hearing ust a the results. just we were hearing just a little the results. just we were hearing just a little bit the results. just we were hearing just a little bit earlier the results. just we were hearing just a little bit earlier that, - the results. just we were hearing just a little bit earlier that, ok, | just a little bit earlier that, ok, it s a decisive win for emmanuel macron, but he has won on less of a share of the vote than he did five years ago. share of the vote than he did five years ago- share of the vote than he did five earsato. . , , years ago. certainly, so the result we decided years ago. certainly, so the result we decided on, years ago. certainly, so the result we decided on, of ye
macron. 58.2%, against marine le pen, who has gotjust over 41% of the vote is. it is a projected vote, it is a projected result, i should say, because it s based on the exit poll, we will get the actual result at some stage in the next few hours. but it is the case that the exit poll has never, in any french election, produced the wrong results. it may be tweaked a little bit but it has never in fact produced the wrong results. so, it is a victory for essentially the continuity candidate, emmanuel macron, and he has achieved a second term in office. the first to do so in 20 years. the last was jacques chirac, in 2002. so, it has has been
we have cbc s kelly so who is with the macron campaign. where supporters have begun their celebrations. charlotte reed is at marie le pen s space. welcome to you both. karen, first to you. to the victor, let s get the reaction where you are. alex, good evening to you from paris. the party is just not stopping here. apparently i am standing in the victors camp. the exit polls have just been released. 58.2 for macron, verses for le pen. keep in, on these extra polls here in france are very reliable. they are taken from actual ballots, samples from how people actually voted. not just interviews of those passing votes. so, it is reliable. i can tell, you the music just started and we ve a lot of support, but that sun, underneath this, it is very different from five years ago when emmanuel macron was a challenger. he was a man with a vision. . i think it was a fairly