The betting odds for an anti-euro candidate winning the French election are eerily similar to Brexit
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The election has markets on edge as two of the candidates, Le Pen and Melenchon, have campaigned on euro-skeptic platforms.
Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front party has said she would ask European leaders and the European Central Bank to replace the euro with a basket of new national currencies, in effect breaking up the single currency.
"The euro is not a currency," Le Pen said in February. "It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the [European Union] and keep them on a leash.
Melenchon, a far-left candidate, has been a little less abrasive. In his manifesto, he wrote he would "devalue the euro to its initial exchange rate against the dollar" if he were elected to office. He has since said that the recent drop in the euro-dollar exchange rate has it trading at an "acceptable" level.
In a somewhat eerie coincidence, the betting odds of either euro-skeptic candidate winning the presidency closely mirror those of the UK voting in favor of Brexit.
We all know how that turned out...
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