Riot police surged and fired teargas at protestors in central Paris on Sunday denouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election, social media footage revealed.

According to photographs on Twitter, police attempted to disperse a mob of primarily young people protesting in the central area of Chatelet.

Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a Sunday runoff vote, securing a second five-year term and averting a catastrophic electoral shock.

Although Macron’s victory came easily, the abstention rate was predicted to reach its highest level since 1969, with a sizable portion of electors refusing to vote for either Macron or Le Pen.

Between the first round of voting and Sunday’s runoff, students demonstrated outside Paris’s Sorbonne and other campuses, expressing their dissatisfaction with the options available.

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