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Mélenchon in the second round, is he right to believe it?

"Take your wishes for a reality"

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France insoumise in the presidential election of 2022. Here, in November 2020, on the set of TF1, in Paris.

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By: Stéphane Geneste Follow

Three weeks before the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, given third or fourth position in the polls, gathered his supporters on Sunday in a "republican march" in Paris, before attending a giant meeting of the candidate.

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The candidate, who already sees himself in the second round, took advantage of this great march between the Bastille and the Republic to recall his program and the reasons why the Sixth Republic is essential according to him.

How to explain this optimism of the leader of La France insoumise?

Answers with political scientist

Pascal Perrineau

, emeritus university professor at Sciences Po and former director of Cevipof.

Author of

Populism

, Que sais-je collection (PUF).

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