Dude....
Lepen I disagree but ok she's not the STANDARD party. Even if she's still greatly in the establishment as you put it.
But Macron? He's a fucking banker! He's a former minister!!! How the hell is that not "political mainstream"??
Macron is just the standard French politician. Just a bit younger.
Same ideas as usual, same methods, same speechs.
OMG even his speeches are copies of Hollande speeches!
I'm talking here about political mainstream only.
Macron started his own political movement last year and don't represent any of two main political parties in France.
For the first time in the last 50 years, main political parties will not have their candidate in the second round.
Yeah but it's just a change of name...
The ideas are the same, the pople behind him are the same (I mean he has the support of the whole old government), the people paying for the campaign are the same...
You can't say it's not new and mainstream just because the party in itself is young, that's just brainwashing.
His political party is the same as the old PS which is now dying. Giving it a new name doesn't make it new in any kind of way xD