Far-right leader and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen, addresses supporters after exit poll results of the first round of the presidential election were announced at... (Associated Press) 
 
 Far-right leader and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen, addresses supporters after exit poll results of the first round of the presidential election were announced at her election day headquarters in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Polling agency... (Associated Press) 
 
 PARIS (AP) — French voters shut out the country's political mainstream from the presidency for the first time in the country's modern history, and on Monday found themselves being courted across the spectrum for the runoff election. 
 
 The May 7 runoff will be between the populist Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, and French politicians on the moderate left and right immediately urged voters to block Le Pen's path to power. 
 
 The defeated far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, pointedly refused to do the same, and Le Pen's National Front is hoping to do the once unthinkable and peel away voters historically opposed to a party long tainted by racism and anti-Semitism. 
 
 "The voters who voted for Mr. Melenchon are angry voters. They can be in agreement with us," said Steeve Brios, a vice president of Le Pen's National Front party. He said they express a choice "outside the system." 
 
 Choosing inside the system is no longer an option for French voters, who rejected the two mainstream parties that have alternated power for decades in favor of Le Pen and the untested Macron, who has never held elected office and who founded his own political movement just last year. Turnout was 78 percent. 
 
 Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, whose party holds a majority in the legislature and whose President Francois Hollande is the most unpopular in modern French record-keeping, got just 6 percent. The conservative candidate fared marginally better, coming in third with just shy of 20 percent of the vote. 
 
 "We are in a phase of decomposition, demolition, deconstruction," said former Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls. "We didn't do the work — intellectual, ideological and political — on what the left is, and we paid the price." 
 
 Both center-right and center-left fell in behind Macron, whose optimistic vision of a tolerant France and a united Europe with open borders is a stark contrast to Le Pen's darker, inward-looking "French-first" platform that calls for closed borders, tougher security, less immigration and dropping the shared euro currency to return to the French franc. 
 
 European stock markets surged on the open as investors welcomed the first-round results, with Macron favored to win. German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished Macron "all the best for the next two weeks." 
 
 Merkel's chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, tweeted that "the result for Emmanuel Macron shows: France AND Europe can win together! The center is stronger than the populists think!" 
 
 Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie, made it to the second round against Jacques Chirac in 2002 and was crushed. Many commentators expect the same fate for his daughter, but she has already drawn far more support than he ever did and she's transformed the party's once-pariah image. 
 
 Le Pen offers an alternative for anyone skeptical of the European Union and France's role in it, said Louis Aliot, the vice president of the National Front party. 
 
 "I'm not convinced that the French are willing to sign a blank check to Mr. Macron," he said. 
 
 But Macron's party spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux, said the far-right candidate is hardly a vector of change. 
 
 "She's been in the political system for 30 years. She inherited her father's party and we will undoubtedly have Le Pens running for the next 20 years, because after we had the father, we have the daughter and we will doubtless have the niece," he said. "So she is in a truly bad position to be talking about the elites and the people." 
 
 Macron came in first in Sunday's vote, with just over 23 percent; Le Pen had 21 percent; Melenchon and losing conservative candidate Francois Fillon each had 19 percent. Fillon, a former prime minister, bested the former Trotskyist by just 94,998 votes. 
 
 Protesters overnight burned cars, danced around bonfires and dodged riot police at the Place de la Bastille and Republique. Twenty-nine people were detained at the Bastille, where protesters waved red flags and sang "No Marine and No Macron!" in anger at the results. 
 
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 Ganley reported from Henin-Beaumont. Lori Hinnant and Thomas Adamson contributed from Paris. 
 
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 This corrects that Socialist candidate was Benoit Hamon ||||| PARIS (Reuters) - Far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon embraced technology during the launch of his presidential campaign at a rally in Lyon on Sunday, with a 3D hologram of him making his speech appearing at the same time at another rally in Paris. 
 
 Technicians are seen with equipment used to produce a hologram that is trasmitted to a gathering in Saint-Denis as politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, of the French far-left Parti de Gauche, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, speaks on stage during a campaign rally in Chassieu, near Lyon, France, February 5, 2017. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot 
 
 Melenchon, wearing a Nehru-style jacket, tried to use the hologram technology give a modern look to his launch, which coincided with that of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen. 
 
 Melenchon is certainly not the first politician to employ such technology - in 2014, then-Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan used a huge hologram of himself to attract wider support, while India’s Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country. 
 
 Melenchon tried to position himself on Sunday as a key adversary of Marine Le Pen, choosing Lyon - and almost the same timing - for the launch of his campaign. 
 
 Le Pen, speaking in Lyon on Sunday, told thousands of flag-waving supporters chanting “This is our country!” that she alone would protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalisation if elected president in May. 
 
 There are some similarities between Melenchon’s platform and Le Pen’s, as both are skeptical of the EU and globalisation, but they differ sharply on other issues including migration. 
 
 During his speech, Melenchon mentioned the Socialist party’s presidential candidate Benoit Hamon, who has called on left-wing forces to unite. 
 
 “Everyone wants to abolish El Khomri (a labor law), including the Socialist candidate. I wonder what holds him back?” said Melanchon, who has between 11 and 11.5 percent support, according to Friday’s BVA poll. 
 
 The Socialists, weakened after the deeply unpopular presidency of Francois Hollande, have no chance of getting beyond the first round of the election in April, according to the latest polls. 
 
 The poll by BVA of voting intentions on Friday gave Hamon between 16 and 17 percent in the April 23 first round, behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen on 25 percent, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron on 21-22 percent and conservative Francois Fillon on 20 percent. ||||| French socialist party presidential candidate Benoit Hamon, right, casts his ballot for the first round of the French presidential election in Trappes, west of Paris, Sunday April 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil... (Associated Press) 
 
 French socialist party presidential candidate Benoit Hamon, right, casts his ballot for the first round of the French presidential election in Trappes, west of Paris, Sunday April 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu) (Associated Press) 
 
 PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the first round of France's presidential election (all times local): 
 
 8:50 p.m. 
 
 French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen are advancing to the presidential runoff, after major opponents conceded defeat. 
 
 For the first time in modern French history, no mainstream party candidate is advancing, upending the country's political system. 
 
 Voters will choose May 7 between Macron, a former investment banker and ex-economy minister, and Le Pen, who has tried to scrub her National Front party of its history of racism and anti-Semitism. 
 
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 8:45 p.m. 
 
 France's prime minister has called on voters to support centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron against far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the country's presidential election. 
 
 Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has called for the defeat of Le Pen's National Front party, in comments just after polling agencies projected the two advancing to the May 7 presidential runoff. 
 
 The announcement came moments after the Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon conceded defeat. If the results hold, it would be the first time in modern French history that no major-party candidate has advanced to the presidential runoff. 
 
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 8:20 p.m. 
 
 Supporters of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron went wild with cheers as polling agency projections suggested they could advance to the presidential runoff. 
 
 "We will win!" Le Pen supporters chanted in her election day headquarters in Henin-Beaumont. They burst into a rendition of the French national anthem, and waved French flags and blue flags with "Marine President" inscribed on them. 
 
 Macron supporter Mathilde Julien said that "he represents France's future, a future within Europe." 
 
 Silence and disappointed sighs rose up instead at the headquarters of conservative Francois Fillon in Paris as projections appeared on TV screens suggesting he is in third place and wouldn't make it into the runoff. 
 
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 8:15 p.m. 
 
 French Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon has conceded defeat in the first-round presidential vote. 
 
 Polling agency projections showed Hamon a distant fifth place after five years of a deeply unpopular Socialist government. 
 
 Hamon said as he acknowledged losing the race that "the left is not dead." 
 
 Projections show that far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron leading in the first round. If their leads hold, it would be the first time in modern French history that no major-party candidate has advanced. Hamon called on voters to back Macron in the May 7 runoff. 
 
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 8 p.m. 
 
 Polling agency projections show far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron leading in the first-round French presidential election. 
 
 The results could set up a duel between a young candidate with no electoral experience and the woman who remade the image of a party tainted by racism and anti-Semitism. 
 
 The race is seen as a litmus test for the spread of populism and could help determine Europe's future. With most polls just closed, it remained too early to say who advances to the May 7 runoff. Close behind were far-left contender Jean-Luc Melenchon and conservative Francois Fillon. 
 
 The projections are based on vote counts in select constituencies, then extrapolated nationwide. If Le Pen and Macron's leads hold, it would be the first time in modern French history that no major-party candidate has advanced. 
 
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 6:50 p.m. 
 
 Presidential voting in France's Caribbean territories seems to have lagged behind that on the mainland. 
 
 Official figures show that only about 35 percent of the 311,000 eligible voters on the French island of Martinique had voted by 5 p.m. local time Saturday, two hours before polls closed. Final figures were being released with Sunday's results. 
 
 The percentage was even lower elsewhere: Just 34 percent in Guadeloupe and 20 percent in Saint-Martin. 
 
 In Martinique, Fort-de-France Mayor Didier Laguerre tells the Martinique 1ere radio station that most voters are probably waiting for a runoff. 
 
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 5:25 p.m. 
 
 Voter turnout in France's close presidential election is above 69 percent in late afternoon, almost as high as the last presidential vote. 
 
 The Interior Ministry announced Sunday that the turnout had reached 69.4 percent, compared to 70.6 percent in the first round of presidential voting in 2012. 
 
 After years of economic stagnation and high unemployment, voter disillusionment is exceptionally high this year, prompting expectations of lower-than-usual turnout 
 
 Polls have suggested that far-right candidate Marine Le Pen's voters were especially motivated to cast ballots while supporters of other candidates were less convinced. 
 
 Sunny weather in much of France may have played a role. Some pollsters also said an attack on police Thursday may have prodded voters into taking part in the election. 
 
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 4:50 p.m. 
 
 Thousands of people are rallying in Berlin to show their support for the idea of a united Europe and for a pro-European outcome for France's presidential election. 
 
 The weekly demonstrations organized by a grassroots group in Germany and other European countries calling itself Pulse of Europe began at the end of 2016 to counter growing nationalist sentiment and opposition to the European Union. 
 
 On Sunday, thousands showed up at the German capital's Gendarmenmarkt square. They waved the star-spangled blue flags of Europe, held up signs like "Berlin loves France" and sang Europe's "Ode to Joy" anthem. 
 
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 4:25 p.m. 
 
 Even though the northern French town of Henin-Beaumont is presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's bastion, that's no guarantee of votes for the far-right contender. 
 
 Voters trickled in Sunday in a steady stream to polling station No. 12, an elementary school where Le-Pen had voted earlier in the day in the first round of France's presidential election. 
 
 Valerie Hosaert, a 48-year-old insurance company worker, says "there are 11 candidates and not one that pleases me ... so I'm voting for the least bad." 
 
 Charlotte Villette, 25, added "we don't have much choice. They're all losers." 
 
 Yvette Tifou, 67, a retired math teacher, said her choice was "relatively simple" since she is a long-time leftist. She also said Sunday's presidential vote is more important than past presidential votes in France. 
 
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 2:50 p.m. 
 
 In Montreal, thousands of French citizens have waited in lines that snaked at one point to eight blocks long to cast their votes in France's presidential election. 
 
 Polls opened Saturday morning in Canada's main French speaking city, home to Quebec's highest population of French nationals. French citizens lined up to vote at Montreal's only polling station at Stanislas College in Outremont. 
 
 The vote in mainland France is happening Sunday, but polling stations in France's far-flung overseas territories and in embassies around the world opened on Saturday to allow enough time to collate the vote results altogether. 
 
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 2 p.m. 
 
 Outgoing French President Francois Hollande has said the best message of this election would be "to show democracy is stronger than anything" by going out to vote. 
 
 Hollande, who is not standing for re-election, oversaw tight security measures for Sunday's first round poll to help prevent disruption after Thursday's deadly attack on the Champs-Elysees. 
 
 His government mobilized over 50,000 police and gendarmes to protect polling stations. 
 
 Voting in his political fiefdom of Tulle in Correze, southwestern France, Hollande said that "we are in such a time, and sadly it's nothing new and not about to end now, when we must mobilize a lot of means." 
 
 He called the measures a "guarantee to the French people this fundamental right of choosing their future." 
 
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 1 p.m. 
 
 France's Interior Ministry says the voter turnout so far in the first round of the presidential election is about the same as it was in 2012, when turnout was high. 
 
 At midday Sunday, the ministry said that 28.54 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballot, compared with 28.29 percent in 2012. 
 
 Commentators have said a low voter turnout would benefit far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, whose voters are seen to have more enthusiasm and are more certain to vote in a low turnout election than supporters of some other candidates. 
 
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 12:20 p.m. 
 
 A voting station in eastern France has reopened after being evacuated because of a suspicious vehicle parked nearby. 
 
 Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told The Associated Press that the voting station in Besancon was evacuated while explosives experts examined the car, but they deemed there to be no risk. 
 
 He said no other incidents have been reported in Sunday's first-round presidential election. 
 
 Tens of thousands of security forces are guarding voting stations across France after an attack in Paris on Thursday revived security concerns. France remains under a state of emergency after deadly Islamic extremist attacks in recent years. 
 
 The top two winners on Sunday will advance to a May 7 runoff. 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 Topless demonstrators from the Femen activist group have caused a commotion as they staged a stunt against Marine Le Pen outside a polling station where the far-right presidential candidate was heading to vote. 
 
 Around six topless Femen activists were detained Sunday morning after jumping out of an SUV limo wearing masks of Le Pen and United States President Donald Trump. 
 
 Police and security forces quickly forced them into police vans, confiscating their signs. 
 
 Le Pen voted at the station shortly after without further disruption. 
 
 The election is taking place amid heightened security. The government has mobilized more than 50,000 police and gendarmes to protect polling stations. 
 
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 11 a.m. 
 
 Centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, one of the front-runners in France's unpredictable election, has voted in the coastal town of Le Touquet in northern France alongside his wife Brigitte Macron. 
 
 The former Socialist economy minister and former banker was relaxed and posed for selfies with voters. 
 
 Macron, 39, traveled to Le Touquet this weekend where he has a holiday home for time off the campaign trail. 
 
 Other candidates also cast their ballot Sunday morning, including Socialist Benoit Hamon and far-leftist Philippe Poutou. 
 
 A total of 11 contenders are vying to advance to the presidential runoff on May 7. 
 
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 1030 a.m. 
 
 President Francois Hollande has cast his vote in the first round of the French election in his political fiefdom of Tulle in Correze, southwestern France. 
 
 The incumbent Socialist president made the unusual move last year of pledging to not stand for re-election. 
 
 The Socialist candidate is 49-year-old Benoit Hamon, who is not among the presidential front runners. 
 
 Hollande was the most unpopular French leader in the country's modern history. 
 
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 10 a.m. 
 
 The wife of conservative presidential candidate and former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has cast her ballot near their country home — conspicuously not alongside her husband, due to vote miles away in Paris. 
 
 Presidential candidates usually vote together with their spouses. 
 
 Welsh-born Penelope Fillon, 61, was handed preliminary charges for her role in a fake jobs scandal — dubbed "Penelopegate" — that had threatened to derail her husband's campaign. 
 
 She voted in the department of Sarthe, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) away from the French capital, where she lives with her husband in a 14th-century manor. 
 
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 9:30 a.m. 
 
 Candidates in France's presidential election have started to cast their votes. 
 
 Hardline right-winger Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who rails against Europe, was the first of the 11 presidential candidates to vote Sunday morning in his constituency in the leafy Paris suburbs. 
 
 Far-left candidate Nathalie Arthaud cast her ballot soon after in the Paris suburb of Pantin. 
 
 In Paris, voters were lining up early at polling stations. 
 
 The vote "is really important, mainly because we really need a change in this country with all the difficulties we are facing and terrorism," said Paris resident Alain Richaud. 
 
 "It's definitely risky, but I have faith in the result even if an extreme candidate qualifies for the second round," said Beatrice Schopflin. 
 
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 8 a.m. 
 
 French voters have begun casting ballots for the presidential election in a tense first-round poll that's seen as a test for the spread of populism around the world. 
 
 Over 60,000 polling stations opened Sunday at 0600 GMT for some 47 million eligible voters, who will choose between 11 candidates. It's the most unpredictable election in generations. 
 
 Polls suggest far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist and former economy minister, were in the lead. But conservative Francois Fillon, a former prime minister, appeared to be closing the gap, as was far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon. 
 
 France's 10 percent unemployment, its lackluster economy and security issues topped voters' concerns. 
 
 Early voting began Saturday in France's overseas territories. ||||| LILLE — Three weeks ago, left-wing firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon was an entertaining sideshow in France’s presidential race — fun to watch on TV thanks to his cutthroat speaking style but ultimately no threat to the frontrunners. 
 
 Nobody is laughing now. 
 
 Less than two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the anti-EU, pro-Moscow Mélenchon is busting open what was already an unpredictable race and threatening to sink the campaign’s only viable pro-EU candidates. 
 
 Benefitting from the collapse in support for socialist candidate Benoît Hamon, Mélenchon enjoys the support of 18.5 percent of votes. That’s on a par with conservative former prime minister François Fillon and only 3.5 percentage points behind centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, according to a daily poll of first-round voting intentions by Ifop. 
 
 Mélenchon is still no shoo-in for the presidency. But his increasing popularity is becoming a problem for the two frontrunners, because a large swathe of his backers — 42 percent of them, according to Ifop — say they won’t vote in the second-round run-off between the top two candidates if Mélenchon is no longer in the picture. 
 
 Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who is almost certain to make the second round, can rejoice. 
 
 “Abstention among Mélenchon voters can turn into a determining factor,” Ifop’s Jérome Fourquet said. “Many people in this group are going to find it impossible to vote for ‘Macron the banker’ — how many exactly it’s hard to say. What’s clear is that the tactical voting we saw in 2002 that kept Jean-Marie Le Pen out of power is not going to work as well this time.” 
 
 ‘Operation Abstain’ 
 
 On Wednesday night, at a massive rally in the northern city of Lille, Mélenchon offered a glimpse of his appeal for millions of French people. 
 
 Dressed in his signature Mao-style jacket, the candidate put on a freewheeling performance that alternated between mocking commentary of news articles, snippets of stump speeches and diatribes against rivals. 
 
 Hands-free thanks to the kind of microphone Madonna would wear, he moved around the small stage to make sure he addressed everyone. Outside, thousands who were unable to get in stood in the cold watching him on a giant screen for more than two hours. The candidate’s voice, amplified by powerful speakers, could be heard half a kilometer away. 
 
 Mélenchon explained the thrust of his speech as seeking to show “two visions of the world that oppose one another.” 
 
 But the substance was devoted to his rivals, namely Macron, whom he repeatedly referred to as a “banker.” If either Macron or Fillon were elected, Mélenchon bellowed at one point, then they would make ordinary men and women “spit blood” from overwork. 
 
 “In 2008 we both had a membership card for the Socialist Party,” he went on, referring to Macron. “I turned my card in to defend my ideas. He turned his card in to join the Rothschild bank. That’s about as much as you need to know.” 
 
 The crowd was vocal. Every time Macron’s name was mentioned, they booed long and loud. Mélenchon let them do so, saying at one point: “Doesn’t it feel good to shout?” But when they hissed at the mention of the Communist Party, which has not thrown its support behind Mélenchon, he cut them short. “None of that,” he snapped. “They are our friends.” 
 
 The anti-Macron message was being heard loud and clear. 
 
 Eight out of 10 supporters questioned by POLITICO said if Mélenchon did not make it into the election’s final round, they would abstain — even if that meant the head of the National Front, whom most otherwise opposed, became France’s next president. 
 
 ‘The Trojan Horse of finance’ 
 
 “Macron represents capitalism, which along with financial lobbies is shaping Europe,” said a 60-year-old art teacher who only wanted to be identified as Mathilde. “He is the Trojan horse of finance.” 
 
 She added: “If in the second round Mélenchon is not there, so be it, I will not vote. We’ll have the far-right. I don’t care. I can promise you that there are many, many people in my situation. We are just completely fed up.” 
 
 Lucas, an 18-year-old preparing to vote in his first presidential election, was on the same page. “If it’s Macron against Le Pen in the second round, I am not voting.” 
 
 Ditto Lydie and Fabrice from Lille. “What I will do is take two pieces of paper with Mélenchon’s name on them and slip them in the ballot box at both rounds,” said Lydie, a retired postal worker. “I could not bring myself to vote for [Macron],” echoed Fabrice. 
 
 Mélenchon offers such a similar vision of world affairs to the National Front chief. 
 
 A massive refusal of Mélenchon backers to switch to Macron in the election’s second round would seriously harm his chances. 
 
 While polls show Macron prevailing in the final round, he will need supporters of rivals on the left and right to help him over the finish line. Much of his second-round support is implied as part of a tactical voting scheme known as the “Republican Front.” 
 
 However, conversations with several Mélenchon backers suggested they had little interest in forming a Republican Front. A reporter from a local newspaper who had voted against Le Pen in a regional election in 2015 said she would be unable to do so this time around against Macron. 
 
 Others shrugged when asked if they would be able to accept a Le Pen presidency. One said he would vote for Le Pen against Macron in the final round. Two hinted that a President Le Pen was preferable to a President Macron, because she represented a “real change” whereas the former economy minister was “the same old recipes.” 
 
 If some Mélenchon backers are ready to accept a Le Pen presidency, it may be partly because the candidate offers such a similar vision of world affairs to the National Front chief. 
 
 Both advocate a confrontation with the EU, and a referendum if they don’t get what they want; both are skeptical of the United States, friendly toward Russia and want to redefine France’s relationship with NATO.
– Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and independent Emmanuel Macron have been drawing the lion's share of attention as the French presidential election nears (the first round is April 23), but a leftist candidate who has used a hologram of himself to stump at campaign rallies is now gaining some traction. In what the Washington Post calls a "truly unprecedented campaign," Jean-Luc Melenchon has seemingly emerged out of thin air as the Unbowed France candidate, with added support from the French Communist Party—and he "gives shivers to banks, businesspeople, and the bourgeoisie," per the New York Times. Melenchon, once considered a fringe candidate no one really paid mind to, is running on an anti-capitalism platform, with a mission to dismantle the monarchy-styled governmental system implemented by Charles de Gaulle in the late '50s. Melenchon is now ahead of mainstream conservative Francois Fillon in the polls and only a couple of points behind Macron and Le Pen. He's been speaking to the younger set with videos on YouTube and a video game in which players go after bankers and the head of the IMF. What makes this year's election in France notable is that the slightly left-leaning Socialists and slightly right-leaning Republicans aren't the ones duking it out for the country's top seat. And the showdown between Le Pen and Melenchon, whom the Times says is sometimes depicted as a "French Bernie Sanders," even sounds strikingly like the one witnessed between Sanders and Donald Trump, with both candidates vying for voters who want to decimate the status quo, though with different tactics: Le Pen is tapping into nationalism, while Melenchon is pushing help for the poor. (Facebook is going after false accounts before the election.)