PM Najib congratulates Macron on French presidential election victory

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.

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.

-- BERNAMA