Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered thousands of people this Sunday in Paris during a march for the "Sixth Republic".
Three weeks before the first round, the candidate of La France insoumise called for a useful vote on the left.
“Each person is personally responsible for the outcome.
Don't shy away!
“, in particular launched the rebellious.
When the rebel arrives at the Place de la Bastille, the sun is already high in the sky.
Not a cloud in sight, it is 2 p.m., Jean-Luc Mélenchon joins the front row of his great “march for a sixth Republic”.
The candidate of La France insoumise greets his activists, who have come by the thousands to "abolish the presidential monarchy".
Three weeks before the first round, the mobilization is above all a show of force, in line with those of 2012 and 2017, to strengthen his candidacy, now in third or fourth position in the polls.
Here is the challenge of this Sunday: to hammer home that it is the “useful vote” on the left and to convince the last recalcitrants.
“You make the decision.
Don't shy away!
»
“We have three weeks left to go to every door, every stairwell, every market.
Three weeks to convince that it is necessary to release this President of the Republic and install Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the Elysee Palace, ”assures Thomas Portes, one of his spokespersons, on arrival, Place de la République.
The LFI candidate then climbs onto the stage and raises his fist.
Criticized for his positions concerning Russia since the war in Ukraine, the tribune dedicates the rally of the day to “the resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion”.
“Far from being inert and resigned, we have come to say with all our strength that another world is necessary.
And because it is necessary, so we are going to make it possible, ”he says in stride.
In the home stretch of the campaign, the LFI candidate is putting pressure on left-wing voters.
“Each person is personally responsible for the result, because each person has the keys to the second round.
This is everyone's moral and material responsibility.
Don't hide behind differences between chefs and labels.
You make the decision.
Don't shy away!
»
“We are going to win” and “Mélenchon president!
".
Place de la République, many are convinced by the speech on the useful vote, like Hugo, 23 years old.
“It kinda pisses me off to vote for him, because I wasn't a fan of his international politics.
But Macron's social breakage project scares me extremely.
It will not be a vote of conviction, but an emergency vote, a useful vote, a pragmatic vote”, blows the bartender from the NPA.
“Zemmour's candidacy was a trigger for me.
There is a need to unite to face social, ecological and political emergencies.
And around me, I see a ripple effect.
Many will vote Mélenchon, even without much conviction, ”says Lisandru, a 21-year-old student.
The fact remains that this Sunday, the MP for Marseille prefers to silence the substantive differences with his competitors on the left and their voters: the end of nuclear power with the communist Fabien Roussel, European questions with the ecologist Yannick Jadot, secularism with Anne Hidalgo.
The rebellious prefers to unfold his project, which he opposes to that of the outgoing president.
And warns his people for the umpteenth time: “By choosing the popular union from the first round, you are making a choice of society.
This is the meaning of this election since Mr. Macron announced his program loud and clear.
This vote is a social referendum.
You have been warned”.
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