Decryption

How was LFI able to establish itself as the leading force on the left?

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France insoumise in the presidential election of 2022, during the march on March 20, 2022. AFP - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT

By: Adrien Delgrange

1 min

Convinced that it was necessary to invent "another left" in France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon decided to leave the Socialist Party in 2008. 14 years later, with La France insoumise, he established himself as the undisputed leader of the left, strong of its 22% in the presidential election.

And achieves the coup de force, some will say, or the stroke of genius, others will say, to create a popular union for the legislative elections next month.

Union which brings together - rebellious - ecologists - communists and socialists.

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Even if the road is still long and strewn with pitfalls before an eventual victory for this union, this gathering certainly marks the culmination of a political strategy which will have taken nearly fifteen years to succeed. 

Decryption with: 

- Valentin Soubise

, doctoral student in Political Science at the

University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne,

writes the following thesis: Populism in practice:

France insubordinate to the conquest of the working classes 

- Vincent Dain

, doctoral student in political science at the

University of Rennes

I

, specialist in new European radical left parties.  

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