The 2022 presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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The leader of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon said this Sunday that he would not give voting instructions in the event of a Macron / Le Pen duel in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, even if both are not " clearly not the same ”.

“One is from the extreme center, that is to say completely disheveled liberal, very authoritarian.

And the other one does not know very well what she wants, because now she is repainted in very lively European, she says that Islam is a religion like the others, and this poor Darmanin who immediately says you are too soft… It has become a fuzzy object Marine Le Pen, but we know who she is, it is the traditional far right, ”said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 3.

The Head of State and the President of the National Rally are therefore "not the same".

"However, I will never take the initiative to say do this, do that" in the event of a Macron / Le Pen duel, he stressed, "because the instructions have no weight today, we must live with the times!

", Added Jean-Luc Mélenchon who has already launched, like Marine Le Pen, his candidacy for 2022. The rebellious leader denied having put" an equal sign "between the two candidates during the second round of the 2017 presidential election, as he is often criticized.

Already no deposit in 2017

He then refused to give an instruction to his voters, simply indicating that, for his part, he would vote, and not for the National Front.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said he had collected "almost 200 signatures of sponsorships of elected officials" for his candidacy, castigated the polls "not serious" which place "a year before" the deadline Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen neck and neck, a duel "staged by Emmanuel Macron" while Marine Le Pen has only to "wait".

But with left-wing voters who say they want to vote neither for one nor for the other, "the situation will reopen and become more volatile, which will add episodes to the soap opera," he predicted.

He said he understood the position of these voters and explained it by the repression of the movement of "yellow vests" and the evocation by Emmanuel Macron of Pétain and Maurras, "two figures of anti-Semitism and betrayal of the fatherland" , he stressed.

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