Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French presidential election, projected results say. Mr Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 66% to 34% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest president, the results show. … The BBC’s Hugh Schofield in Paris says this is the most remarkable success story of how… Read more.
Marine Le Pen
France’s Marine Le Pen, Putin’s Latest Democratic Honey Trap
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the target of a ‘massive hacking attack’ after a trove of documents was released online. The campaign said that genuine files were mixed up with fake ones in order to confuse people. … It compared it to the leak of Democratic Party emails… Read more.
‘Backlash’ against (Liberal) Women Leaders…
In light of the recent trend set by Angela Merkel of Germany and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Bachelet’s election [in Chile] would be encouraging to those of us who welcome the seepage of womanpower through the crevices of political and corporate governance around the world… Here’s to ‘the fairer sex’ – not only as indispensable guardians of… Read more.