"There are two lefts who are not compatible in a first round" of presidential election, but it takes "a common vote" and a "popular union" in the second round for the left to win in 2022, demanded Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) Sunday.

If I "jumped into the arms of Mr. Valls or Holland, everyone would say" those are hypocrites, it is not true, they cannot be offended ".

That's right, we disagree on everything.

There are two lefts there who are not compatible ”in the first round, said the boss of the rebels, in Political issues (France Inter /

Le Monde

, Franceinfo).

"There will be a joint vote if I am in the lead"

“But in a second round of election, there must be a common vote.

There will be a joint vote if I am in the lead.

For the moment it is I who am in the lead in what is considered to be the left, from single to double, I allow myself to say it, ”he underlined.

A declared presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtains 12 to 13% of the voting intentions in recent polls, against 6 or 7% for Anne Hidalgo (PS) and 6% for Yannick Jadot (EELV) if they present themselves .

Far behind Marine Le Pen (RN, 28%) and Emmanuel Macron (LREM, from 25 to 27% of the vote), while on the right, Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR) is credited with 14%.

With the PS, the Greens or the Communists, “I know that we are separated by serious oppositions and that we cannot deny them.

We do not agree on Europe, nuclear power and the Sixth Republic ”, underlines Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

But "to win, you need a majority, it is necessary that the popular union be achieved in the ballot box, that is to say all the people who agree with a program such as re-establishing the ISF, increasing the minimum wage. , etc ... ”.

"Heartbreaking"

According to him, today, "the union of the left is an obstacle to the popular union".

The boss of the rebellious cites the presence of Olivier Faure (PS) or Yannick Jadot at the police demonstration on May 19, a "demonstration of factious police", after which "the first hashtag (keyword on the social network Twitter ) in mind it was never the PS again ”.

The boss of the rebels also insists on the "heartbreak" to see the Communists present a separate candidate in 2022, the national secretary Fabien Roussel.

"I ask them to think about whether communism is a label or a content."

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