With the results in and Emmanuel Macron having secured a second term as French president, The Local's Talking France podcast breaks down the results and looks ahead at the next few days, the parliamentary elections and the five years of Macron's second term.

As the results came in, Ben McPartland was joined by The Local’s France editor Emma Pearson and veteran political columnist John Lichfield to try and work our what it all means.

Macron was re-elected with a 17 point lead, the first French president to win a second term. However turnout was the lowest since 1969 and of those people who did vote, four in 10 voted for the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Add this to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the war in Ukraine and the likelihood of further international political and economic turmoil, and Macron has a challenge on his hands.

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