Far left’s Mélenchon wins French’s second presidential debate

Last night saw the second round of the French presidential debate which, over 3 hours saw the 11 candidates’ discuss foreign policy, terrorism, economics and EU membership. Latest polls suggest the winner was far left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 25% of people believing he was the most convincing. The two leading candidates clashed on the Eurozone policy. Centre candidate Emanuel Macron accused far right candidate Le Pen of wanting to start a an ‘economic war’ in her pursuit of taking France out of the single currency. With recent polls suggesting that 25% of the French electorate are still undecided on a candidate there is all to play for in the run up to the first round of voting on the 23rd.