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Radical-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s new coalition threatens Macron’s power. (AFP via Getty Images)

The philosopher Jacques Rancière summed up the situation as ‘the regulated comedy of a presidential second round where the ‘lucid’ left closed in around the candidate of the financial oligarchy as the only bulwark of ‘reasonable’ democracy against the candidate of ‘illiberal democracy’’, in this case the far-right Marine Le Pen.