How French politics put personality ahead of party

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It is the same on the left, where Mélenchon has built on his strong third place in the presidential election -- he won 22 per cent of votes in the first round to Le Pen's 23 and Macron's 28 -- to create a political alliance around himself and his hard-left agenda of protectionism and massively increasing public spending.
49% : Both Le Pen and Mélenchon have been Putin sympathisers and are Eurosceptic advocates of economic nationalism and protectionism, although they differ sharply on race, religion and migration.

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