Paris (AFP)

Valérie Pécresse, outgoing president of Ile-de-France and candidate for re-election, dismissed Sunday back to back the extreme right of Marine Le Pen and the extreme left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, after the march against the ideas of the extreme right on Saturday in Paris.

"Marches against extremes with Jean-Luc Mélenchon: there is a contradiction in terms. The far left, for me, even if it does not have at all the same history as the far right, seems to me today. hui in a drift which makes it as dangerous for the country as the extreme right ", declared to BFMTV Valérie Pécresse (Libres !, ex-LR) about the boss of LFI.

The potential contender for the Elysee "absolutely returns" back to back these two extremes because "the consequences of their coming to power would be the same for society, it would be disorder and economic bankruptcy".

Questioned on these remarks, Mr. Mélenchon judged on LCI that "Mrs. Pécresse commits a serious and heavy moral fault".

"Because, whatever the extent of her disagreements with me, she shouldn't speak like that, she knows very well that there is a fundamental difference in nature between a humanist and a member of the extreme right" .

Asked also about the fact that she could abstain in the event of a second round in the presidential election opposing Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Marine Le Pen, Ms. Pécresse replied "obviously because neither of the two can, for me, govern France ".

"But there will be no Le Pen-Mélenchon second round precisely because we are here and we have found a third way".

"I have put a tight wall vis-à-vis all extremes, the National Front, but also the extreme left that I am fighting head to foot, since it is a left-extreme left alliance that could win the victory. 'Île-de-France against me, "added the one who remains favorite in the polls.

The president of the regional council recognizes that the RN "is an authorized party", from that moment Marine Le Pen "is part of the democratic field and therefore, the voters have the right to vote for her".

But "I wish that they do not do it and my fight is to disgust them by showing this true face because the RN has not changed", according to her.

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