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Well, considering that our far-right party is much more powerful than our far-left party, assuming people will turn to the far-left one now seems quite a bargain. And there is no precedent either, Mitterrand was from the socialist party.
Anyhow, I do not think the economy is bad enough for people to turn to extremes that much. I mean, seriously, it does not compare at all with that: