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 　　Joining me now from Paris, with the Macron campaign is "NewsHour Weekend" special correspondent Malcolm Brabant.

　　Malcolm, how much of a victory was this for him as we heard from people who were at the polls here?

　　Some of them said this was not a vote for him. It was a vote against the opposition¹.

　　Well, this is — if you look at the numbers, it looks like a really substantial victory, 65 percent against 35 percent.

　　But when you actually look at the real numbers that actually voted for Macron, it's really not as big.

　　So, he cannot really regard this as being a complete mandate², a popular mandate because there were so many people who abstained³ and overall,

　　there were only about some 20 million French voters who actually voted for him, and that's less than a third of the country.

　　And so, many of the people who voted for him were not necessarily voting for him, they were voting tactically.

　　What they wanted to do more than anything else was to prevent Marine⁴ Le Pen from getting into the Elysee Palace, and they managed to do that.

　　All right. So, there is the joy of campaigning versus⁵ the difficulty of governing now.

　　Very much so. I mean, the president has the ability to appoint a prime minister and various other ministers.

　　But what he needs to do is very much like the U.S. president.

　　He needs to have the French parliament with him and French parliamentary elections are coming up in June.

　　And the thing is, he doesn't actually have any kind of real, sort of party formation, any sort of party history.

　　And he's somehow got to get around, about 270 people into parliament if he's to have his movement in the majority there.

　　And I think that what we are really going to see is not so the other parties doing their utmost to be able to stymie⁶ him.

　　So, for the next five years, he may find it very difficult to get his policies through, especially if he gets a parliament that doesn't support him.

　　One of the key issues between — that was very clear cut between these two candidates was their relationship

　　or what they would like relationship be with to the E.U. Should the E.U. take some comfort and that Le Pen did not win,

　　or should they still be concerned that Macron does not have that mandate yet?

　　You know what, any independent observer would say to the bureaucrats⁷ in Brussels is that, you know,

　　there's an awful lot of people in Europe who are very unhappy with the way that the E.U. is being run and those are the people that need to be listened to.

　　I mean, otherwise, the right wing nationalist movement in Europe is going to continue.

　　But what possibly happened here tonight is this movement is that this being — this movement,

　　this wave which lots of people were hoping was going to sweep across Europe seems to have come to another dead halt here,

　　although Marine Le Pen is saying that she is now the leader of a great opposition.

　　Perhaps, that's what the destiny for the right wing in Europe, is that it's going to be opposition rather than government.

　　All right. Malcolm Brabant, joining us from Paris tonight — thanks so much.

　　You're very welcome. undefined

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

3 abstained   

v.戒（尤指酒），戒除( abstain的过去式和过去分词 )；弃权（不投票）

参考例句：

• Ten people voted in favour, five against and two abstained. 十人投票赞成，五人反对，两人弃权。
• They collectively abstained (from voting) in the elections for local councilors. 他们在地方议会议员选举中集体弃权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

5 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

6 stymie   

v.妨碍，阻挠

参考例句：

• Companies have been stymied by the length of time it takes to reach an agreement.由于耗时过长，各公司一直未能达成协议。
• Relief efforts have been stymied in recent weeks by armed gunmen.最近几周的救援工作一直受到武装分子的阻挠。

7 bureaucrats   

n.官僚( bureaucrat的名词复数 )；官僚主义；官僚主义者；官僚语言

参考例句：

• That is the fate of the bureaucrats, not the inspiration of statesmen. 那是官僚主义者的命运，而不是政治家的灵感。 来自辞典例句
• Big business and dozens of anonymous bureaucrats have as much power as Japan's top elected leaders. 大企业和许多不知名的官僚同日本选举出来的最高层领导者们的权力一样大。 来自辞典例句