French presidential election, 2022

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All of the right-wing politicians are also doing some sort of pilgrimage to Armenia because its a core constituency.

Do you mean America? Why would French politicians care about Armenia?

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Mélenchon himself used this opportunity to start the year with some rambling against ‘the European Marian flag’ (he is obsessed with that; note that Léaument has claimed that the EU flag should be removed because it is a symbol of religious origin and, as such, an infringement on laïcité)

WTF

Surprisingly, people have claimed Marian connections in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe#Marian_interpretation

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It's very hard to have a favorite candidate in this election.
There are Macron, the far-right candidates, and the best performing left-wing candidate, Melenchon, supported protests against the vaccine pass.

It's a disgusting field, and in fact the youth is being discriminated against, as in a lot of western countries but seeing the post here above a few posts above in fact, we need a "big shock" in order to win our rights. It's not okay that retirees earn more money than younger generations who cannot even afford to pay a housing... than they become racist because the housing all go to refugees and immigrants (and 14 of the 15 names have a foreign sounding name) - which is exactly what they tell me.

Like it is disgusting that Pecresse is now the main contendor to beat Macron. Come on... have we all lost our mind.

Question: why do older voters dominate French political discourse?
Answer:
 

Note that young people are not responsible for this problem.

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Or, more to the point, the multiplication of left candidates and the mediocre polling both individually and collectively points to one thing in particular - the weakness of the left wing candidates who are standing. The reason they're all floundering in the single figures is that none of them has a message, a line, an anything that is unifying enough or frankly good enough to go beyond that.

Which of course is a endless issue in and of itself. If "The Left" collectively does not think it can get into round 2 against Macron, then all the candidates who actually could excite people stay out and the overall quality lowers. Since nobody dynamic is consolidating the field, other 'B listers' see the B listers that are running floundering and think "well I'm as good as them, I can save us!" And so the field multiplies.

Who are?
IMO fundamental problem is that there aren't enough left-of center voters in France.

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How many people are actually watching Cnews?

https://www.ozap.com/actu/audiences-fevrier-tf1-leader-egale-son-plus-bas-historique-f2-et-f3-boostees-par-les-jo-les-chaines-info-au-top/614181


This source say CNews has only 2.2% viewership share