Well, actually there's some similarities...
French Presidential Telenovela Update : Today, the shifty Fillon won.
Well, he "won" in the sense that he won't have to step down. Juppé went on TV to say he would not, in any case, be a candidate so there's no backup plan anyway. So the party line is now to unite behind Fillon. He still lot his spokesperson, his campaign manager, former Chirac's prime minister Dominique De Villepin stated in interview he cannot vote for Fillon and he's still under justice examination
Maybe politics will be more audible now.
Macron at last unveiled his program : He's planning on reducing the public servants workforce by 120.000 yet promises to hire 5000 more teachers and 10000 cops.
He wants to reduce taxes on corporations, the highly symbolic tax on high wealth (by only calculating it using real estate assets) and supress the inhabitation tax (paid once a year by all tenants).
He's careful not to go too far but still, he wants to have a single regime for unemployment benefits and pensions (for a more "transparent" and "efficient" system) without pushing back the age of retirement. 20 years ago, the Juppé government basically soft locked the country with strikes when they tried to end specific pensions.
Quite a bit of observers are peeved with the messianic undertones of his campaign but really that's par for the course in France.