In the wake of the 2017 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was elected MP for Bouches-du-Rhône in a constituency conquered from the left, but where he took the place from the outgoing socialist.
The candidate of rebellious France seems to have distanced himself from Marseille, where he could well leave a vacant place.
The citizen candidate Kevin Vacher is the first on the left to have really embarked on the legislative campaign in the constituency, without waiting for the results of a presidential election which will reshuffle the cards.
Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Lyon, Paris announced in upcoming meetings, after Montpellier, Tours, Strasbourg or Bordeaux in recent weeks: the agenda of presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise) avoids for the moment carefully Marseille, where his main competitor on the left, Fabien Roussel (PCF) chose to hold his first national meeting in early February.
It is an understatement to say that the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, successfully elected in 2017 against the socialist Patrick Mennucci, does not plow his electoral lands.
Unsurprisingly, the publication last Friday of the first rebellious leaders for the legislative elections (under the banner of the Popular Union) leaves the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône blank, the one where Jean-Luc Mélenchon is elected.
The time for (re) nominations is not yet here, and the presidential scores will certainly set the course.
But on the ground, the question is in everyone's mind.
For some, already decided.
"The Marseille story of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is over, otherwise he would have given himself the means with the hundreds of activists he had at the start in the city", assures Alain Barlatier, activist of the Republican and socialist left and former close friend. of Melenchon.
"He did not invest in the local field at all, especially after the collapse of rue d'Aubagne where there was work to be done on the question of political alternation in Gaudin", he regrets.
“If the Mélenchon graft took in Marseille?
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"All he did was get angry with his deputy, put a spoke in the wheel of Printemps Marseille [citizen list who conquered the town hall], reduce his militant base", adds the one who was also the director of campaign for mayor of the 1st sector of Marseille by Sophie Camard, the deputy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (who has chosen to support Fabien Roussel in the presidential election).
“If the transplant took in Marseille?
It all depends on whether you ask the question to the After-M, to the Saint-Louis sugars, to the inhabitants of Air Bel exposed to Legionella because of the water, in short to all those people who were in social struggles that Jean -Luc Mélenchon relayed, or if you ask the opposition”, reacts for his part Bernard Borgialli, candidate France insubordinate to the departmental in Marseille, facing the pair Sophie Camard and Benoît Payan.
Figure of the rebellious in Marseille, and leader already designated for a legislative investiture in the northern districts, Mohamed Bensaada knows by heart the refrain of a deputy Mélenchon who would be absent, too absent from Marseille: "Do we asks questions about the transplant between the Marseillais and Alexandra Louis or Saïd Ahamada [LREM deputies from the Bouches du Rhône]?
The personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, his status makes everyone talk about it.
This tutelary shadow suits everyone.
On the question of water at Air Bel, on McDo, and many other subjects, he did his job as the nation's elected representative.
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For him, as for the other activists in the field, it's time for the presidential election: “The urgency is there.
“And if a name circulates well at LFI to succeed Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the person concerned is busy with other things: it is indeed Manuel Bombard, his campaign director for the presidential...
A constituency in the spotlight
On the left, Kevin Vacher is the first to have officially embarked on the legislative campaign in the constituency held by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
To make the voice of citizen movements heard and bring the existence of a citizen bloc to the National Assembly, alongside the left and environmentalists.
This sociologist, figure of the collective of November 5 born after the collapse of the buildings of the rue d'Aubagne, knows that the constituency in which he is running is at the center of all attention.
“Everyone looks at it, for years it has been the most left-wing constituency in France.
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He kicks in touch on the balance sheet of Mélenchon, refusing "to campaign against the other left-wing candidates when we see the score at the national level", and even judging "interesting" the approach of the popular union.
"His entourage says he will not stand again", he continues, observing that his election in 2017 was "a rather contradictory event": "He was too little local deputy, and at the same time a very good national deputy, believes Kevin Vacher.
This event strengthened a more civic radical left.
The reason why he came to Marseille is for everything that was happening there, for this citizen revolution that he theorized.
“Remains, according to him, “to take action 2”.
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