Trudeau congratulates France’s president-elect Macron on decisive win
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Emmanuel Macron to congratulate him on his election as the next president of France.
The Prime Minister’s Office says the two leaders reaffirmed the “rich and diverse bilateral relationship that exists between Canada and France.”
French voters elected the centrist as the country’s youngest president ever on Sunday, delivering a resounding victory to the unabashedly pro-European former investment banker.
Marine Le Pen, his far-right opponent in the presidential run-off, quickly conceded defeat to the 39-year-old Macron after voters rejected her “French-first” nationalism by a large margin.