Of nearly 47 million registered French voters, there are fewer than a million resident in far-flung places like French Polynesia in the South Pacific, and Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique in the Caribbean. Candidates for the 2017 presidential election, from left, François Fillon, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen pose before a debate in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, on Thursday. "The election of Marine Le Pen would make Brexit look trivial by comparison." 🗳️ #Presidentielle2017 Le vote pour le 1er tour a débuté outremer, à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon #AFP — @afpfrThe majority of the 85,000 French voters in Canada were voting in Montreal's Outremont neighbourhood. "That can be Marine Le Pen but it can also be the extreme opposite of that.

Source: CBC News April 22, 2017 18:22 UTC