French Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Summary

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The speaker is a comedian who makes fun of the French presidential election of 2017, especially the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. He urges the French people to vote and not to make the same mistakes as Britain and America with Brexit and Trump. He uses humor, sarcasm, and a hologram to appeal to the French sense of superiority and culture.

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1. France is holding the first round of its presidential election on April 23rd, 2022, and the second round on May 7th, 2022.
2. The fate of the EU and the eurozone may depend on the outcome of the French election, as some candidates support a French exit from the EU.
3. Francois Hollande, the current president, is not running for re-election due to his low approval rating of 4 percent.
4. There are 11 candidates in the race, but only four have a realistic chance of making it to the second round: Francois Fillon, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Emmanuel Macron, and Marine Le Pen.
5. Francois Fillon is a former prime minister who has been accused of paying his wife and children public money for fake jobs and receiving expensive suits as gifts.
6. Jean-Luc Melenchon is a far-left candidate who is anti-EU and pro-hologram, as he has used holographic technology to appear in multiple places at once.
7. Emmanuel Macron is a centrist candidate who has never held elected office before and is married to his former teacher, who is 20 years older than him.
8. Marine Le Pen is the leader of the far-right National Front party, which was founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, a notorious Holocaust denier and anti-Semite. She has a populist and nativist platform that is anti-immigrant, anti-EU, and anti-Islam.