Who is your favourite candidate in the French Presidential Election and why?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is who I want to win because he represents everything that I believe. Its a shame having two left candidates in one election pretty much ruins both of their chances of making the second round though. The mainstream socialists are doing abysmally but not quite abysmally enough to give the radical all their votes.

French left voters are probably getting ready to pick Macron as a lesser evil but at least that is better than Mussolini lite.

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Cierzo · M

You know who she is, but after the Trump fiasco I don't really have hopes in any change coming from voting.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Cierzo: LOL I agree with you about Liberal Hawks. My own Labour Party has a right wing that essentially no difference from neo-cons. They are members of the Henry Jackson Society; which basically means we bomb people 'because progressive values'. Pffffff.

I have seen a few Bannon speeches on Youtube and he has talked of war with China and the clash between Islam and the West. He is a nationalist and different from Bush neo-cons but I don't see his rhetoric as non-interventionist.

Cierzo · M

@Burnley123: He talks about a cultural/civilisational clash, but I have not heard him calling for war. He supports ethno-states, homogeneous states for different cultures, the opposite of multiculturalism.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Cierzo: For me the talk of the cultural clash is linked to the Bush War on terror. Maybe he doesn't want that and I haven't seen his opinions on specific American interventions. I do share your distaste for liberal hypocrisy though and the barbarism of standard US foreign policy which Trump seems to be now following.