Melenchon Softens Attacks on Euro as French Race Tightens
- Communist-backed candidate uses holograms to reach cities
- Surveys show vast majority of French voters want to keep euro
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Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon is toning down his anti-euro rhetoric as his chances rise of reaching the runoff in France’s presidential election.
“Don’t believe what they tell you: ‘He wants to get out of Europe, of the euro,”’ Melenchon, 65, told a meeting in Dijon on Tuesday, simultaneously appearing as a hologram in six other locations, including the distant island of Reunion. “Come on, let’s get serious.”