François Hollande is really pushing from a financial standpoint by raising taxes on the wealthy, banks, and large businesses, creating over 60,000 teaching jobs, and dropping the retirement age by two years. The current president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been telling the public about this efforts in an economic standpoint. He wants to balance France's current budgets and create stability. Marine Le Pen wants to focus on the French economy as well, specifically agriculture and production, taxation, energy, and transport. Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants the public to focus on the crisis of market capitalism, which is a government based on a supply and demand basis. Finally, François Bayrou has many ideas including efforts to safeguard the credibility of the political process, personal freedom, and free software.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2012, you will see that François Hollande is beating Nicolas Sarkozy by about 1.5%, but it is predicted that Sarkozy is barely squeezing by in the elections in votes and has a chance to reagin office.
Both candidates have promising ideas for the future of France and can bring many positive changes to the table. François Hollande is focusing on the financial problems in the France. I think his path leads to more jobs and revenue for the government, but may get the country in trouble when it comes to foreign trade and their debt. With Nicolas Sarkozy, he is also pinpointing the finances of France, but is expanding his efforts to the economy. This plan also encircles foreign trade and mass production, which might come in handy when he time comes. The country doesn't seem to be crumbling as of right now, so Sarkozy is a fine candiate, but Hollande might bring new ideas, changing things for the better.
