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This chart shows the share of votes received by candidates in the first round of the French presidential election 2017. Image: Statista 

With 24 and 21 percent of the votes respectively, France now has a very clear choice to make on May 7.

Will voters choose Macron, the pro-Europe internationalist, or Le Pen, the anti-EU protectionist?

Polls suggest the internationalist will trounce the protectionist but as 2016 showed us, anything can happen in politics nowadays.

This article and chart originally appeared on the blog of the data firm Statista, and is republished here with permission.