So after all the excitement, the result was as everyone had predicted: Marcon v Le Pen for the second round on May 7th.
Unless you’ve been living under a very large rock for the past year you will have heard of the many comparisons made with the recent US elections, Brexit and this Election Présidentielle 2017. The rise of the far-right across Europe. The unreliability of polling, and the impact of mass immigration have led to a genuine fear that Marine Le Pen could succeed where her further-right father didn’t, to become France’s president.