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SIX MONTHS filled with tension and keen apprehension of the "Trump effect" cropping up on the European soil separated two victories at the presidential elections: the victory of conservative Donald Trump in the United States and liberal Emmanuel Macron in France. The nation responded to the preliminary results of the second round in France announced on May 7 with barely concealed relief and a wave of unrestricted jubilation. The European multinational Liberal International that could barely tolerate Marine Le Pen's populist conservatism and the very similar values of the new American president treated Macron's victory as their common victory. Liberal politicians and the biggest European media of similar political and ideological convictions were lavish with words: L'heure de gloire pour la France, Merci La France! and La France dit Non! etc.
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