PARIS, FRANCE (LC – EUROPEAN UNION) The French headed to the polls today in the first round of voting for the 2017 presidential election, seeking to narrow the field to two top candidates who will then participate in a runoff election on May 7. The uncertainty and antipathy that marked this election cycle, gave way to fear last week as the country’s terror issues come to the surface once more. Three days before the election a gunman attacked a police van in the Champs-Elysées using an automatic weapon, killing one officer and wounding two others in an act of terror that … Continue reading France’s options narrow to Le Pen and Macron in tense presidential election