> > Still he behaves like if the French people wanted him. Well he's the closest to that benchmark no? You can hardly regulate how emboldened a person feels,

> > Still he behaves like if the French people wanted him. Well he's the closest to that benchmark no? You can hardly regulate how emboldened a person feels, especially after having obtained such a big result. He is the most liked person in France , as if you just take into consideration the raw number of people who like him and ignore those who dislike , his number would be higher than the everybody else. It's always like that with elections, once the polls are closed and the votes counted someone will have a mandate and a mandate is determined by number of preferences expressed. Those who stayed home or the raw number of "dislikes" doesn't count. A thing that would somewhat diminish the power of the elected person is an election where just 15-20% of the population who has the right to vote decided to cast their vote