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[Voter card] Rebels and communists, the great leap backwards

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Fabien Roussel (g) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (d), both left-wing candidates for the French presidential election, © AP/Michel Euler/Jeremias Gonzalez/Montage RFI

By: Aurelien Devernoix

They had made a common cause and candidacy in 2012 and 2017, but that was before.

Between the rebels of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Communists of Fabien Roussel, the rupture is consummated and these are therefore two rival candidacies which advance towards the presidential election next month.

To the great displeasure of Camp Mélenchon. 

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