With Emmanuel Macron given the clear winner in the first round of the presidential election, the fight is focused on second place with the call for a useful vote launched on the left on Sunday by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

An Ipsos poll for

Le Parisien

and franceinfo places the candidate LFI in fourth position with 12% of voting intentions, certainly far behind the outgoing president (30.5%), but only four points behind RN Marine Le Pen (16% ).

He is on the heels of far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour (13.5%) and ahead of LR Valérie Pécresse (11%).

With such a low entry ticket for the second round, the fight remains open 28 days from the first round.

The LFI candidate could give hope to a fragmented left, unable to unite and given a long time beaten in advance.

He is at this stage the best-placed left-wing candidate, as confirmed by the Ipsos poll where he is well ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot (6.5%), the communist Fabien Roussel (3%) or the socialist Anne Hidalgo ( 2.5%).

“This presidential, I feel it well.

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Convinced of being "on the doorstep of the second round", Jean-Luc Mélenchon took the opportunity to call for a useful vote in an interview with the

JDD

 : "I say to each conscience of the left: each is personally responsible for the results ".

According to him, a second round Mélenchon-Macron, “it changes everything” and “would purify the atmosphere”.

"Better to discuss whether retirement is at 65 or 60, rather than the intellectual venom that the far right spreads," he insisted.

Before concluding: “this presidential election, I feel good about it.

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At a time when purchasing power is emerging as the main concern of the French with the surge in gasoline prices caused by the war in Ukraine, the Insoumis candidate is trying to avoid a new duel between Macron and Le Pen as in 2017. He then ranked fourth with 19.6% of the vote within two points of the RN candidate.

After having already started from much lower in the polls.

“Leadership in the Space of the Lefts”

On franceinfo, the deputy managing director of Ipsos Brice Teinturier judges "absolutely indisputable" that Mélenchon has taken "the leadership in the space of the left".

And this despite competition from the Communist Party which, unlike 2012 and 2017, presents its own candidate with Fabien Roussel, a choice that Jean-Luc Mélenchon continues to regret at length of interviews.

Again on Sunday, the PCF candidate refused to rally: "I hear those who would like me to retire like Mélenchon, [but] there is no risk," he replied on Radio J, saying he too felt "very well" his campaign.

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Subject to strong criticism for his pro-Russian positions since the start of the war in Ukraine, Mélenchon does not seem to have been penalized in the polls, despite the frontal attacks of Jadot and Hidalgo who again criticized on Sunday his “particularly delicate and questionable link with a number of dictators on this planet”.

“The challenge of second place will be greatly affected by the dynamics of useful voting”, explains Bernard Sananès, president of the Elabe institute, to AFP.

“Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon going to carry it on the left and will Marine Le Pen to the right of the right succeed in capturing a useful vote?

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