Macron elected French president May 8, 2017 by shameen An Israeli-French female soldier prepares to vote at the French consulate in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017 during the second round of the French presidential vote. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 7, 2017 shows French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron (L) exiting a polling booth before casting his ballot at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, and French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN – National Front) party Marine Le Pen walking out a polling booth at a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, during the second round of the French presidential election. / AFP PHOTO / POOL AND AFP PHOTO / Eric FEFERBERG AND ALAIN JOCARD Chief of the polling booth, Stephane Thevenin, holds the ballot box as he arrives in Chausey island, northwestern France on May 6, 2017 a day before the second round of the French presidential election. On May 7, 2017, 51 people will vote in the island of Chausey. / AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen (L) and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron pose prior to the start of a live brodcast face-to-face televised debate in television studios of French public national television channel France 2, and French private channel TF1 in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on May 3, 2017 as part of the second round election campaign. Pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen face off in a final televised debate on May 3 that will showcase their starkly different visions of France’s future ahead of this weekend’s presidential election run-off. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Eric FEFERBERG / ALTERNATIVE CROP French president-elect Emmanuel Macron (C) and his wife Brigitte Trogneux (C-R) wave to the crowd in front of the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris on May 7, 2017, after the second round of the French presidential election. Emmanuel Macron was elected French president on May 7, 2017 in a resounding victory over far-right Front National (FN – National Front) rival after a deeply divisive campaign, initial estimates showed. / AFP PHOTO / Patrick KOVARIK