A big public defection in France from the Socialists to Macron on the same day that Fillion's wife gets charged.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/france-manuel-valls-backs-emmanuel-macron-presidential-election
What a bitter. He gives up being PM early to focus on his campaign. He could have worked right up until last Saturday (assuming he won the primary) but stepped down months ago. Blames everything that went wrong while he was PM on Holland, calls Hamon a "defector" depite himself doing exactly what Hamon did just at a different date, gets soundly rousted in the PS primaries and says nothing until today.
Instead of calling for party unity and take a huge step forward for the rebirth of the PS, (because Hamon is not winning this election) he's essentially delivering the deathstroke to the party he's been a member of for the last 30 years because the card holders don't see his vision as the way forward. He'll drag the old guard with him to float towards Macron to get a seat at the table (I presume he's been dealing with Macron to this end).
Fillion is toast, no-one on the left has the votes and this is officially a 2 horse race.
Incidently, one of those horses was on France 2 last night.
Marine Le Pen openly accused the station of being pro-Macron, of promulgating anti-FN propaganda, of calling an obvious nazi salute by an FN team-member a "friendly wave" (which prompted said person to call the the presenter a little man covered in shit on Twatter after the show), that Macron was a dupe of Hollande (!?) / banking lobby puppet / media darling, and, of course, of "sensationalising fake news of wrongdoing" in the ongoing EU case of fake jobs (the one where she owes the EU about €300,000, has no intention of paying and has gone on public record as saying that she will ignore the outstanding police summons to appear before them to answer this and other imbezellement charges until after the election. Can you imagine an MP in the UK saying that the Police can just wait the 2 months until he/she is ready to answer a summons? Everyone is aghast here but not enough to force her to actually do anything about it.)
And that was just the last 24h.