If many voices are raised to demand a union of the various left forces for the presidential election of 2022, the candidatures are multiplying and unity seems complicated to install.

And one year before the election, the polls are very worrying.

ANALYSIS

One year before the 2022 election, the list of contenders for the Élysée is growing, but at what cost?

Sunday, the boss of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel was invested as a candidate for the presidential election by his party.

A candidacy which further complicates the task of those who plead for a rally of the left.

However, current polls show that this dispersion of candidates risks ending in a bitter failure at the ballot box. 

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However, on paper, the initiatives do exist.

Invited on Saturday from Europe 1, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for a common front.

"It's enough to type between us," hammered the leader of rebellious France.

Yannick Jadot brings together potential candidates on Saturday

Except that the fourth man of the last presidential election himself will not go in person to the meeting launched by Yannick Jadot.

The ecologist will bring together next Saturday all that the left has officials and potential candidates: Olivier Faure, Benoît Hamon, Fabien Roussel, but also and above all the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

In all, about twenty people who promise to work together to bring out a single candidacy on the left.

But it seems to have started badly.

Because beyond women and men, today, no program brings together the center left to the extreme left through the Greens.

This programmatic prerequisite being a failure, the dispersion is total and leads to failure.

This is in any case what emerges from the Ifop poll published on Sunday by the

Sunday Journal

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On the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the best contender, but he never exceeds 13%.

Even more worrying, in the unlikely event that a left-wing candidate finds himself in the second round against Marine Le Pen, none manages to beat the far-right candidate.