Paris (AFP)

The spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Alexis Corbière, in view of the presidential election, once again extended his hand Thursday to Fabien Roussel (PCF) and to the sovereignist candidate Arnaud Montebourg, while reproaching the latter for not to be "frank of the collar".

"If we join a few", "and Jean-Luc Mélenchon can be the locomotive", "we can be in the second round, that's what the fragmentation of the extreme right tells us today" in the polls which increases "the possibility of entering the second round" in April 2022, estimated the LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis on franceinfo.

"Arnaud, Fabien and the others if you listen to me, why would we not be in the second round? Why could Jean-Luc Mélenchon not be the candidate for the 2nd round, who avoids this deadly 2nd round that we are being told? is possible, let's do it on the ideas, on the substance, "he said.

The leader of the Insoumis, however, had not spared the former socialist minister of productive recovery a few minutes earlier.

"Arnaud Montebourg lectures on the incarnation" but "I do not believe that he embodies something very radiant", he blurted out.

"Dear Arnaud, I love you very much, you cannot constantly waste time in interviews typing on Jean-Luc Mélenchon by giving the impression that there would be a Mélenchon problem, while Arnaud, the problem, is that you are not always very frank of the collar and people know it ", also reproached him Mr. Corbière.

"Thanks to you, we had François Hollande, we had Manuel Valls and we also had the arrival of Mr. Macron because if you had helped us the last time ...", he added.

Before getting back to it: "but we also made mistakes, now I stop scratching it".

LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon "cannot win, this is one of the reasons why I am a candidate," Mr. Montebourg had supported on Sunday at Europe 1-Cnews-Les Echos.

"The proposal I am formulating is a unifying proposal. His is unfortunately excessively radical and sectarian," added the one who is credited with 2 to 4% of voting intentions in the latest polls.

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