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Macron win sends ‘powerful message’ to far-right, top Europe rabbi says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOne of Europe’s top rabbis welcomes pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election, saying voters sent a “very powerful” message to the country’s far-right.
Macron’s sound defeat of far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the run-off vote is “very good news for France,” says Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the influential Conference of European Rabbis.
“The fact that two-thirds of French voters didn’t want a far-right government is a very powerful statement,” Goldschmidt tells AFP.
Many of the votes cast were not for Macron, rather “it was a protest vote against Marine Le Pen,” he says.
— AFP
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