Diversity Macht Frei
May 8, 2017
Israelis eligible to vote in the second round of France’s presidential elections on Sunday opted overwhelmingly for the winner, Emmanuel Macron, France’s ambassador to Israel said Monday. In a post on her Twitter account, Helene Le Gal said that Macron received 96.3 percent of votes in Israel. The vote was seen as an effort to block his opponent, the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Overall, Macron won 64% of the vote.
The Grand Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, congratulates Emmanuel Macron on his victory in the presidential election and wishes the President Elect every success in leading the destiny of France in the next five years. He is delighted by the triumph of republican values and salutes the French people who mobilised en masse to block the far right.
Jewish groups applaud French electorate as Macron becomes French President Exit polls indicate Emmanuel Macron has been elected president of France, to the relief of the country’s Jewish community.
Mr Macron is projected to win 65.1 per cent of the vote against 34.9 for his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, whose party, the National Front has a history of antisemitism and racism.
… The President of the European Jewish Congress, Dr Moshe Kantor, said: “We congratulate Emmanuel Macron and the French people on a victory against hate and extremism. This was a vote for France, for the European Union and for democratic values.”
“Never has a major European country faced such a challenge to its most basic value system of tolerance and democracy since all of Western Europe was dominated by fascism in the Second World War. We applaud the French people for facing this challenge with the full force of French democracy and the core values of the Republic.”