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PM Najib congratulates Macron on French presidential election victory

Bernama 08/05/2017 | 03:47 MYT
Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak today congratulated Emmanuel Macron for winning the French presidential election on Sunday. -Reuters
Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak today congratulated Emmanuel Macron for winning the French presidential election on Sunday.

"Congratulations to President-elect @EmmanuelMacron. Looking forward to stronger bilateral relations between our two countries," he said in his Twitter account today.

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According to Reuters, Macron was elected French president on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union.

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