three-month suspended prison term and an NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN euro fine in december NUMBER_TOKEN when he intimidated officials who are carrying out a search at his office in a probe over funding regularities given all of that melanchon is now polling at just nine percent yannick jadon the green party candidate isn't doing that much better either politico's polling aggregator puts him slightly behind melanchol at just eight percent despite being relatively well known jadeau has been unable to overcome the fact that the greens just aren't really considered as serious candidates for president in NUMBER_TOKEN their candidate won just two percent of the vote and they decided not to even field a candidate in NUMBER_TOKEN. the final candidate anne hidalgo of the socialists is polling at just four percent which is an astonishing fall from grace for a party that won an election just a decade ago and if hidalgo does lose which looks likely at this stage it'll be the first time in history that the socialists have failed to get a candidate through to the second round twice in a row hidalgo obviously hasn't been helped by the post hollande poisoning of the socialist brand but she hasn't done that much to help herself either as a mayor of paris who made her name by pedestrianizing much of the city center hidalgo has often been accused of being an urban elite and anti-car which doesn't go down too well with the chilejon crowd hidalgo's campaign which began in october has failed to improve support and things reportedly haven't been helped by the fact that banks have refused to lend the socialists any more money essentially the french left had been hurt by a europe-wide swing to the right and herlon's controversial presidency as well as no candidate proving capable of overcoming those disadvantages so what does the french left do now well one obvious option would be to form some sort of electoral coalition but this seems unlikely the parties met in april to try and negotiate some sort of deal but nothing came of it in part because melanchon doesn't get on well with the socialists having left the party in NUMBER_TOKEN but also because the three disagree on the appropriate balance of power the socialists despite polling on NUMBER_TOKEN percent still see themselves as the standard bearers for the french left while the greens and melanchome point to their recent electoral successes as evidence that they're the future but what do you think is this the end for the french left or is it just a temporary blip should they form some sort of coalition or continue to go alone let us know your thoughts in the comments below like i said at the start if you use code black friday in our store this weekend you'll get NUMBER_TOKEN percent off everything in your order that's right NUMBER_TOKEN you can even get two signed copies of our book brexit the coloring book for just NUMBER_TOKEN if you use the link below now that is some good brexit news for once anyway treat yourself and your tod loving friends by heading the store and by doing so you're also supporting our work so thanks very much also be sure to subscribe the channel and hit the bell icon to be notified every time we release a new video special thanks to our patreon backers who make videos like this one possible and if you want to see your name at the end of videos then you too can back us on patreon the
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