French presidential election: Jean-Luc Mélenchon sees the second round within reach
Faced with the "president of the rich", Emmanuel Macron, Jean Luc Mélenchon (our photo) sets himself up as the people's vigilante.
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Despite discouraging polls, Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes in it: the second round of the French presidential election is within reach.
And the candidate of the Popular Union is therefore now concentrating his attacks against the one he sees as his main rival Emmanuel Macron.
Illustration in Tours Thursday evening where Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered nearly 2,500 of his supporters.
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With our special correspondent in Tours,
Aurélien Devernoix
“
Fortunately, the comedy is over.
Now the picture is stabilized
”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon is relieved.
All the candidates on the left are now known and he believes that they are no match for him: “
For years, we were the challengers.
Now we are the biggest piece
”.
Macron, the real adversary
So make way for the real adversary: Emmanuel Macron.
A president with an economic and social record deemed disastrous: “
There are eight million people who need access to food aid.
There are twelve million people who are cold at home.
But, they are told: everything is fine, growth is back.
Unemployment is coming to an end.
Everything is fine !
".
Crisis of Covid-19, education, housing, gas prices, nursing home scandal: these are the facets of the same problem for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A galloping liberalism defended by the resident of the Elysée: "
You think that the money will trickle, from the table of the rich, so bigger and bigger crumbs which you can distract yourself, my dear Jacquouille
".
People's Justice
Faced with the “president of the rich”, Jean Luc Mélenchon sets himself up as a vigilante of the people: “
So yes, I cry out because this world is odious to us.
We do not support its inequality.
We do not support his violence
”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon leader of the left, no doubt.
Emmanuel Macron's first challenger is still a long way off.
The "rebellious" remains for the moment fifth in the presidential voting intentions.
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Presidential France 2022
French politics
Jean-Luc Melenchon