The French are not allowing populist affliction like the British in Brexit or the Americans in electing Donald Trump last year. The snippets in the French election show centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, coasting to victory rather than nationalist populism of Marine Le Pen. Whether the outcome of today’s election in France will halt and reverse the populist trend in the West is what keen observers will be studying in the weeks and months to come. This platform will follow the detailed outcome of the election in France in so far as it appears to be critiquing the creeping anti-globalism in the West.