Laguiller is batshit crazy, but she is seen as consistent and honest (although I doubt most people really know what's in her programme)

She was also made popular by her puppet in Les Guignols de l'Info, the popular satirical show (which was extremely influential in the mid-90s), which focused on her tireless, selfless, campaigning for "workers" ("travailleurs, travailleuses").

She was elected to the European Parliament in 1999, and her group ended up killing a law that would have improved workers' rights. The argument was that anythign that improves workers' right is a balm that needlessly delays revolution. Really.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes