Beware of this message on Mélenchon's position for the second round

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon "does not rule out" supporting Marine Le Pen in the second round in the event of a duel against Emmanuel Macron?

  Beware of this message which is relayed on Twitter and Facebook.

• This message is relayed in the form of a screenshot of a tweet from the daily

  Ouest-France

  .

  The tweet was however quickly deleted and the article modified.

• LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens on Thursday dismissed any call to vote for Marine Le Pen for the presidential election.

Campaign atmosphere this Thursday on Twitter, where citizens or elected officials opposed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon relayed a screenshot of a title from

, although the title was quickly changed the night before.

“Presidential.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not rule out supporting Le Pen in the second round in the event of a duel with Macron”, could we read there.

The daily had however quickly deleted the tweet after its publication on Wednesday evening.

The article to which it referred was also quickly modified: it was updated a quarter of an hour after its publication, with this new title: “Presidential.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon will consult his supporters in the event of a Le Pen-Macron duel.

The regional newspaper clarified that the first version of the article was an “error” which “resulted from a misinterpretation of the consultation that Mr. Mélenchon wishes to launch”.

The

article is based on a dispatch from AFP (Agence France presse) published Wednesday evening at 7:58 p.m. and which is titled “Mélenchon would consult his base in the event of a Macron-Le Pen duel”.

The press agency takes up an interview given by Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the Breton daily

.

Asked about his voting instructions in the event of a second round between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares that he will ask what to do with the "310,000 people" who sponsor his candidacy.

“The evening of the first round, we will ask them what we are doing for the second round”, he develops.

"But it will be easier because I have a good chance of being there!"

“, He continues, thus ruling out the hypothesis of a duel between the outgoing president and the candidate of the RN.

Relaunched by the Breton daily, Jean-Luc Mélenchon insists on this point, explaining that “the probability that [he] arrives in the second round is quite high”.

The same answer as in 2017

In 2017, the leader of the Insoumis had adopted the same position, launching a digital consultation with his supporters.

Charlotte Girard, co-responsible for the program, had ruled out the option of supporting the far-right candidate: "We have always had a very clear position on the fact that we would never call for a vote for the FN, she had explained to France 24. This option does not exist with us.

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It will also not be possible for the supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to call to support the candidate RN in 2022, the candidate's team also explained to

.

LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens clarified this position of principle, this Thursday on France Info: “The far-right vote is not an option for us.

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