Paris (AFP)

"Going into the land of conspiracy, it is not left," said Friday the MEP EELV Yannick Jadot, potential candidate for the ecological primary for 2022, after the remarks of Jean-Luc Mélenchon linking the attacks and the presidential election.

"Even if there is undoubtedly a public today for the conspiracy, our responsibility is to get them out of this conspiracy, not to flatter them", which is "not responsible", he said. on franceinfo, calling on politicians to come out of the "moldy debate" fueling "identity panics".

The declarations of the leader of La France insoumise "do not correspond to its history, its ideas, the place it must occupy in the political landscape", and there is on his part "either an opportunism, a cynicism to be chased on the land of conspiracy, that is to say a drift, but the two are totally out of perspective for the left and environmentalists, "he insisted.

Referring to his relations with the leader of LFI in his attempt to work for a union of the left for 2022, Mr. Jadot said that after him "having kindly explained that there were two irreconcilable lefts for a first round", Mr. Mélenchon was "on the register of insult" and that there could therefore be no "political construction".

But "no one owns his constituents," noted Mr. Jadot.

Does he intend to convince the disappointments of Mr. Mélenchon to join him?

"We will continue to work", he simply replied, reiterating his call to "all progressives, humanists, environmentalists, to work for a prospect of victory in 2022".

The words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon predicting Sunday "a serious incident or a murder" in the last week of the presidential campaign, an event "written in advance", aroused indignation in the political class.

But also among the families of the victims of the Islamist attacks, the leader of the Insoumis citing in particular the killing committed by Mohammed Merah in 2012.

The rest of the left and environmentalists have blacklisted it.

Former socialist minister Arnaud Montebourg estimated Thursday that the leader of LFI was "today the problem of the left, a blocking factor" for unity.

To which Jean-Luc Mélenchon responded by claiming the fact of being indeed "a problem" for the "traditional left", since, he praised, he dominates it in the polls: "They are behind and me in front, ”he argued.

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