Editorial Board
Please Be Careful, France
Voters can't afford to treat this weekend's presidential election too casually.
Some candidates are more real than others.
Photographer: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty ImagesFour candidates stand a realistic chance of making it past the first round of Sunday's presidential election in France. If voters aren't careful, however, they may end up with no choice at all.
That's because two of the candidates -- National Front leader Marine Le Pen and left-wing firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon -- propose platforms so extreme that their destabilizing effect on the French economy, and on Europe, would be hard to overstate.