Comment Re:Article shows how little it knows French politi (Score 1) 304
Because really, when it comes down to it, most French people know it would be an absolute disaster if someone like Le Pen (father or daughter) was elected.
Le Pen will never become president. If there's something you can count on with the French, it's that.
The actually not so wide margin by which Macron won last time was made of reluctant left-leaning voters who chose what they saw as the lesser of two evils. But the "anything but Le Pen" front has been eroding at a fast pace, and those voters might just decide to stay home next time. That's another consequence of the french runoff system: a large part of constituents will have to vote against one candidate rather than for the other in the final round. And an ever growing part of them are getting tired and starting to think it's not worth the hassle to feel screwed over every time, especially since the "traditional right" is pilfering more and more ideas from the extreme right to incorporate in their discourse and their platform, so that in a right vs extreme-right second round the line may not be so clear. Finally, another attitude leading to the same result is people still persuaded that Le Pen would be a disaster, but think in the end it would knock some sense into Le Pen voters to actually experience the disaster for themselves.
Bottom line, there's nothing you should count on as granted for the next election in France.