PARIS (Sputnik) — A character resembling Melenchon is walking across the city and stumbling upon famous French politicians and business people, including former French Ministry for the Economy and Finance Jerome Cahuzac sentenced to three years in prison over tax fraud, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Melenchon's current rivals in the presidential race, The Republicans' party nominee Francois Fillon and independent candidate Emmanuel Macron.
According to Le Monde newspaper, the game was created in the chat rooms of Melenchon's France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) party.
Another prominent presidential candidate, far-right Marine Le Pen, does not have a character drawn after her because she is not an oligarch, one of the game coordinators reportedly said.
"We talked to our graphic designer who said he would refuse to draw her anyway," a game coordinator told the newspaper.
The polls show that Melenchon, who started out as a fringe candidate, now has better chances in the first round of the presidential election than Benoit Hamon, the nominee of the Socialist Party, and may come in fourth or even third, thus overtaking Fillon.
On April 23, French voters will choose among 11 candidates. Only top two contenders, however, will make it to the run-off scheduled for May 7, and most polls indicate that the duel seems likely to be between Le Pen and Macron.
