"I thought he was running for the socialists?"
He didn't say he was on the race, it was still in the unknown.
It is true that the media tried hard to persuade the good French people than he was the new saviour but he was the IMF manager, so hardly a Lefty.
And the PS is not any more Socialist. Social Democrats at best... You can't really see a difference in their program between them and the Righties. They became social-traitors... too much compromise led to prostitution...
The new left will come, and will resist a little bit more than the President of the International Socialist, the Greek Papandreou who resist to the Banksters' onslaught on his country around half-second.

Thanks to the limitless greed of the troika made of I.M.F, E.U and the Banksters, the reality of the World Capitalism will become so unbearable than the populations will rebel.
It will be by the vote. If like in 2005, the vote of the majority should be ignored, it will open the door to the worst...

"Que se vayan todos"