Macron faces a fractured France. Can he govern for the whole?
In his speech announcing victory over far-right opponent Marine Le Pen Sunday night, French President Emmanuel Macron assured the public that his next five years in office would spell a new chapter, with hopes of leading with respect while repairing the nation’s divisions.
“You’ve made the choice of an ambitious humanist project for the independence of our country and for Europe,” Mr. Macron said to a massive crowd beneath a glittering Eiffel Tower. “I’m not the candidate of one camp anymore, but the president of all of us.”
The course of the French presidency – not just in Mr. Macron’s second term, but beyond – may depend on how well he fulfills that promise.
Though the centrist
