Incumbent French president Emmanuel Macron will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election, which will be held on April 24. The two top candidates were announced on Sunday night after a tense and very tight first-round election that opposed twelve candidates. With 23.4 percent of the votes, Le Pen closely follows Macron (27.6 percent) and came in as the second most popular candidate by a margin of merely 1.45 percent ahead of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (21.95 percent), the leader of the far-left. In the French electoral system, only the two top candidat…