2017 French Presidential Election

[MAINEiac4434]

The Orleanist pretender to the French throne has endorsed Fillon. This changes everything!

I'm wholly unsurprised at this development. But aren't royals supposed to stay above the petty partisan political fray?

[MAINEiac4434]

SHOCK HORROR AS POLITICAL COMPASS DOESN'T PLACE EVERY CANDIDATE IN TOP RIGHT



still wrong obviously

My god, that's dumb. So, they're saying a candidate further to the right on economics than Macron is unthinkable, when he's running on some minor changes to FRANCE? And that Le Pen is the most authoritarian candidate one can imagine? Up there with Hitler and Stalin?

It should prove once and for all that the political compass is flaming garbage.

[MAINEiac4434]

I'm hoping Mélenchon surprises everybody and makes the runoff. He's probably the best person to lead France after the disaster Hollande's been, since poor Hamon has no chance. Macron just comes off as more of the same old guard, just rebranded and made younger.

I'm concerned about Melenchon's russophilia... Macron's pro-EU stance makes him much more favorable in my opinion, although the French may disagree.

Why are leftists behaving this way about Russia? This is absolutely ludicrous.

I thought we tended to like democracies and dislike oligarchic dictatorships?

[MAINEiac4434]

I do not know anything about this Filteris pollster



But they have it at

FIllon 22.09%
Le Pen 21.75%
Melenchon 21.11%
Macron 19.95%
Hamon 7.04%

This is how much the candidates are talked about on social medias. Every iteration of "Fillon, give the money back!", which has become an actual meme online in the form of "Rends l'argent", is credited to Fillon.
On the other hand, his voters are usually older than the general population, and are thus less active online.

I can imagine loads of people are talking about him online though.