Leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon shakes up France's presidential race
Drew 70k out to a rally in Marseille. Polls have him in third just 6 percent back from Macron and Le Pen, also polling as the most well-liked candidate in the election.
I told brehs here that rising populism and distrust of establishment does not only benefit the right
@FAH1223 @Broke Wave
What you guys think?
@Liu Kang @mbewane Does he have a chance?
Who knows? I think he can steal votes from the Far-Right, because he's also about "putting the people first", going against the banks/institutions, etc...main difference being (in my opinion) that he seems to have a legit economic program and also seems less radical in than FN in implementing it. People who vote for FN for those reasons more than for the xenophobic/islamophobic speech could change their vote. Historically a lot of FN voters are left voters who were disappointed whne the left started caring less about workers and regular people. He's also been promoting a 6th Republic for some time, right in line with the sentiment that current institutions are too old and have to be changed. Also he seems to be one of the candidates who speaks the most about ecology.
On the left Macron is still quite not trusted, and Hamon is struggling big time to gain momentum. He's probably the least talked-about candidate (among the main ones) right now, mainly because he doesn't have much charisma, clear enemy nor...legal affairs pending lol also a lot of people are pissed at the whole rhetoric of the "
vote utile", meaning the "useful vote" in order to block Le Pen and Fillon by voting for who can supposedly make it...that basically amounts to voting for Macron, and it's kind of "shaming" voters for voting AGAINST someone instead of FOR someone...Mélenchon kind of benefits from that because this line of thought is promoted by poll institutes and the media, and it rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Mélenchon won a lot of sympathy during the presidential debates, especially the first one, he was dropping punchlines here and there so not surprised he's the most liked politician right now. In that debate he was the only to call out by name Fillon and Le Pen for their pending legal affairs. You had "MC Mélenchon" memes all over the web lol
Some breh even did (before the prez debate) a remix of one of his speeches
and Mélenchon said "Great remix, thanks" (first comment)
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Does this dude talk about anything other than the 2016 Dem Primary?
