BowieZ said: Please no.



Anyone but Le Pen.



And ideally not Fillon either.



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Something that isn't quite right in the OP, some kind of misconception :Mélenchon isn't "Candidate of the Far-Left Party". Far-Left Parties are NPA and Lutte Ouvrière, and they have opinions that fondamentally differ (anarchism vs etatism being the biggest one).Mélenchon runs on its own (with his "movement") this time, he was part of the Socialist Party (center-left), took part in a government, for decades before creating a party that was, for him, a party at the center of the French's left. He has been closely supported by the French Communist Party in 2012 and he is supported by the same party, but remotely this time. And the French Communist Party isn't considered to be Far-Left, they are not revolutionnary anymore and they took part in national action.Le Pen can't be elected yet because of the electoral system. Even if she manages to go into the second round, you need to build an alliance with other parties to win the second round AND the legislative round that is 5-6 weeks after the presidential election.Le Pen is too isolated, nobody will call to vote for her while other parties will rally the other candidate that made it to the second round, in order to prevent her from winning. That's the key to the electoral system (and something very different to other European countries or the US)She needs the right-wing party to implode in order to have the monopoly on the right, but this can't happen in 4 months.Plus this time around she lost her freshness because Macron is younger and does a good job at creating a nenewed social-democracy. He has the most successful campaign so far.If she's against Fillon, that's a win for him because the left will call to vote against Le Pen.If she's against Macron, even though Fillon doesn't call to vote against her and 1/3 of his electorate goes to her, Macron will still have all the left and the center against her.