"I prefer Mrs Le Pen because Macron. he's a Socialist", he said.
Far-right nationalist and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen came in second with 21.42 percent, nearly exactly as polls predicted.
The election is widely seen as a litmus test for the populist wave that past year prompted Britain to vote to leave the European Union and USA voters to elect Donald Trump president. This is because there are only two candidates and clear differences between them. "A snap poll from Ipsos on Sunday showed 62 per cent support for Mr Macron and 38 per cent for Ms Le Pen". Voters rejected the two mainstream parties that have alternated power for decades, in favor of Le Pen and the untested Macron, who has never held elected office and who founded his own political movement just a year ago.
She said she believed the State should fix regulation while her rival, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, was in favour of "total deregulation".
Why is a Macron victory so reassuring, even though in common with Le Pen he is an outsider not standing for one of the two main parties?
She won 7.6 million votes on Sunday - the strongest ever result for a FN candidate, and 2.8 million more than her father won in 2002.
He said they express a choice "outside the system".
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The defeated far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, pointedly refused to do the same, and Le Pen's National Front is hoping to do the once unthinkable and peel away voters historically opposed to a party long tainted by racism and anti-Semitism.
Choosing inside the system is no longer an option for French voters, who on Sunday rejected the two mainstream parties that have alternated power for decades in favour of Le Pen and the untested Macron, who has never held elected office and who founded his own political movement just past year.
The atmosphere was cordial for the most part, however, with wholesalers engaging Le Pen in conversation and showing off their wares.
But implementation of Macron's programme - which Saxo Bank analyst Andrea Tueni said investors view as "seductive and balanced" - could run into roadblocks if parliament refuses to play along.
Wearing a white jacket with the market's logo, the blonde 48-year-old National Front (FN) politician meandered through the aisles, a retinue of party officials in tow. "The people will reserve a major surprise for the oligarchy", she said. The Dutch election last month, in which Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off a challenge from far-right rival Geert Wilders to win re-election, was also forecast as the vote drew closer.
Six officers and three demonstrators were injured during the protests at the Place de la Bastille. Twenty-nine people were detained at the Bastille, where protesters waved red flags and sang "No Marine and No Macron!" in anger at the results. Lori Hinnant and Thomas Adamson contributed from Paris.
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