French Presidential Election, 2017

[Alain Delors]

Not very well versed in French politics but it seems the Left is having something of a hard time (no surprise there in 2017). What's wrong with Macron?

Also is there anyway of doing an updated poll?

Given that the left is split between Macron, who is running on the ticket of his own peculiar Blairite, New Labour carbon-copy movement, and the orthodox left-wing PS candidate Benoit Hamon, I wouldn't say it is having such a hard time. I'm actully wondering how well both Macron and Hamon are doing after a tenure by a PS President who is widely regarded as a failure. Add up their numbers and you're getting close to 40%. That's only five percent less than Fillon/Le Pen combined.

Marcon is a pragmatist social liberal who subscribes to the false song of third way economics. Worst of all, he is staunchly pro-EU.

Ugh, he is something of a French Merkel in many respects. I share your concerns over his Europhilia, although for ideologically different reasons.

[Alain Delors]

I've updated the poll now to give the actual candidates.

[MichaelReilly]

Not only is she a fascist, she's not even that hot at all.

Come on lads, get a grip, eh? If we're gonna objectify women, at least do it properly.

[jamescfm]

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[TPPDJT]

Not entirely relevant to this thread but it seems we've avoided at least one facsist being elected...

I wouldn't go so far as to call Wilders fascist, but he's certainly on the right of the spectrum.

[Hrafn]

If Wilders is a fascist, I'm Batman.

[MarkWill]

I call it authoritarian populism, and it is a cancer that must not spread.

Emmanuel Macron 2017

[jamescfm]

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[Axxell]

If we go to analyze in deep the term fascist, ok, Wilders is not fascist. But just to talk colloquially, we can consider similar proposals as fascist. Or we can say that similar proposals are assimilable to typically fascist ideologies. Xenophobic and discriminatory behaviors are typical features of fascist tendencies.

[jamescfm]

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