Anti-capitalist firebrand whose ideas include 100% fat cat tax on earnings above £300,000 wins attention and support in the polls
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the hard left, anti-capitalist firebrand who is rising in the presidential election polls, is all over the French papers – billed as the great surprise, main event and key revelation of the campaign.
With crowds spilling into the street at his packed rally in Lille this week, and tens of thousands recently flocking to the Bastille to hear him call for a “civic insurrection”, Mélenchon has been credited with 14% in the polls by BVA.
His numbers have catapulted him into the realms of becoming a possible “third man” in the first round vote on 22 April.
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Communism on the march. They see all these economic problems as their chance. Never let crisis go to waste. I like how he is labled anti-capitalist, why not Marxist? People need to calls these fools what they are. They are in the USA as well and in positions of power.
By the way, we fought a Cold War for fifty years against these people. Did everyone just think they vanished into air once the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR crumbled?