Rémi Féraud, mayor of the 10th arrondissement of Paris tweeted that, in the second round, a vote for Macron would help "eliminate the extreme right".
"I don't think there's been recognition of what happened on Sunday", Hollande added, implying that people had failed to grasp the significance of the results. In this context, there was a high degree of optimism that Macron would win the second round with polls suggesting that he would win around 60% of the vote.
Speaking of her regrets on the issue of her election campaign, the far-right candidate said she does not have any major regrets, but wishes to have campaigned in small French villages more frequently. They'll now face just each other in May's runoff. Although older voters on the left still sniff that the National Front remains a redoubt of "fachos" - or fascists - she has partially punctured that argument by sidelining much of the party's old guard, including her father in 2015.
French stocks surged more than 4 percent on Monday, the share price of big European banks like BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank added 8 percent, and the euro rose above $1.09, its best day in nearly a year.
The measure of euro volatility against the dollar over the coming month, which captures the May 7 runoff vote in France, fell to around 8 percent from almost 13 percent on Friday. He specifically called out Le Pen's desire to leave the European Union.
Jean-Paul Delevoye, the political veteran in charge of making that happen, says the palpable disarray of France's two traditional governing parties has opened up the space for En Marche!
Mr Philippot called the independent centrist and former investment banker "arrogant" and said that in Sunday night's speech acclaiming his move into the second round "he was speaking as if he had won already".
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President Hollande said the far right would threaten the break-up of Europe, "profoundly divide France" and "faced with such a risk, I will vote for Emmanuel Macron".
(AP Photo/Francois Mori). French far right leader and presidential candidate Marine le Pen, right, adjusts her hair during a ceremony for slain police officer Xavier Jugele, in the courtyard of the Paris Police headquarters, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Fr.
However, Macron is widely expected to gallop to victory over the divisive National Front leader and traders gave a huge thumbs-up.
He still supports her candidacy in the presidential runoff on May 7 against centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron but he and his daughter have had strong political disagreements along the way.
"She's been in the political system for 30 years".
For all the paeans to Macron's unifying vision in divided times, it is now up to French voters to decide whether to entrust him with this nuclear-armed nation in the May 7 presidential runoff. And the German chancellor's chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, tweeted that "the result for Emmanuel Macron shows: France AND Europe can win together!"
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