Going, Going but not Gone (Yet)

I see the French have just had their presidential election.  The first one.  Then they get to do it all again in a run-off election between the top two in two weeks' time.

Now I'm no big fan of the Australian preferential system but it does seem to be tailor-made for this type of election

In our system where voters have to number their preferences and then the votes for the candidates with the least votes in ascending order are redistributed until someone at the top of the count hits the 50% + 1 target, the voters would only need to vote once and you'd have the result at the end of the first day.

Voila! A new president! Tres simple!