Would you vote for LePen? ( Archived) (40)

Jeezers Guzzy ... that pic looks like ome of my school teachers

Did she was very authoritarian? Le Pen is, or this is what they say.

Pardon ?

Your teacher, that resembled Marine Le Pen.

use a comma , next time

she will have picked up more support today with the attack , maybe take it in the first round , wouldn't that be a larf .

No one was more outraged than Jean-Luc Mélenchon when, in 2014, the Montreal studio of video-game maker Ubisoft depicted the French Revolution as a bloodbath in an instalment of its hit Assassin’s Creed series. Mr. Mélenchon, then just another firebrand far-left politician, took particular issue with the “monstrous” portrayal of his personal hero Robespierre, best known for unleashing the Reign of Terror that cost countless suspected counter-revolutionaries their heads.

“I’m sickened by this propaganda,” Mr. Mélenchon told Le Figaro at the time. “The denigration of the great Revolution is a dirty job that seeks to instill the French people with even more self-disgust and a sense of decline.”

No French politician does contempt and outrage quite like Mr. Mélenchon. And his talent for skewering the country’s governing elites as lapdogs of the pro-European barons of capitalism has suddenly yielded big dividends among a French electorate that’s had it up to here with the status quo.

Mr. Mélenchon, a former Socialist senator who now heads up France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France), is the revelation of the French presidential election campaign. He is the only top-tier candidate to have gained ground in recent weeks, doubling his support in the polls and threatening all of his rivals in Sunday’s first round. A final-ballot duel of populist extremes – with Mr. Mélenchon facing off against far-right leader Marine Le Pen – is a distinct possibility.

That frightening prospect has prompted outgoing Socialist President François Hollande to warn voters not be fooled by the simplistic solutions Mr. Mélenchon proposes. “There is a danger with regard to simplifications and falsifications in that one watches the performance of the orator rather than the content of his speech,” he told Le Point magazine last week.

Mr. Hollande is widely reported to be quietly backing Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate who quit the President’s cabinet to create his own political movement.

That has only fuelled more infighting among Socialists, whose official standard-bearer, Benoît Hamon, risks seeing what’s left of his supporters rush to Mr. Mélenchon on Sunday in a bout of strategic voting.

And it’s far from clear if the deeply unpopular Mr. Hollande’s veiled endorsement helps Mr. Macron either. “I don’t even call that the left any more,” Mr. Mélenchon said dismissively of Mr. Hollande’s call to arms. “Those in power have betrayed themselves in every possible way.”

And what does this 65-year-old admirer of Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, and late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez promise instead?

Mr. Mélenchon gives new meaning to the term tax-and-spend. He vows to slap a 90-per-cent tax rate on those earning more than 20 times the median income, or about €400,000 ($578,000). He would increase government spending by €270-billion, including a €100-billion immediate stimulus package to tackle the “ecological and social emergency” he says France faces. He would unleash a wave of nationalizations....