Presidentials J -6
Apr. 16th, 2012 12:00 pmIn six days we'll have the first round of the Presidential election. So bear with me because I'm probably going to talk about the election until the 6th of May. We have 10 candidates this year(1 far right, 3 right, 3 left, 2 far-left and Cheminade who is very hard to label!), and for most of French citizens the point is to get rid of Sarkozy so every opinion poll has been giving François Hollande as the winner. He is not my candidate, though.
It is no secret that I support one of the 3 left candidates (the only left candidate IMO), that is Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
For a long time media have ignored him, but things have changed so my flist might have heard of Mélenchon. 5 days ago there was an article on The Guardian about him and there's a new one today that explains very well why JLM is my candidate!
Weird. I can no longer access (ETA: bug is fixed) Philippe Marlières' article in The Guardian. But I copied it. So if you want to understand my choice, read:
( The article )
It is no secret that I support one of the 3 left candidates (the only left candidate IMO), that is Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
For a long time media have ignored him, but things have changed so my flist might have heard of Mélenchon. 5 days ago there was an article on The Guardian about him and there's a new one today that explains very well why JLM is my candidate!
( The article )