Marine Le Pen denounces the "treason" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon vis-à-vis his voters

Europe 1 with AFP 10:58 a.m., April 12, 2022

Marine Le Pen on Tuesday denounced the "treason" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon vis-à-vis his voters, called upon not to give a voice to the RN candidate in the second round of the presidential election while according to her Emmanuel Macron led " a violently anti-social policy".

"It is a betrayal all the same on his part, because his voters expect protection", and "by suggesting that Emmanuel Macron must be re-elected, he is depriving them of any ability to be protected. It is all the same very serious”, judged the candidate National Rally on France Inter.

Macron's Violently Anti-Social Policy

"Jean-Luc Mélenchon's behavior was for me a source of great astonishment, because he was tougher five years ago against a virtual Emmanuel Macron (who had no record since he was a candidate for the first time, editor's note) than it was on Sunday evening against a real Emmanuel Macron (…), after five years of demonstration by Emmanuel Macron of a violently anti-social policy", developed Ms. Le Pen.

"I find it disturbing, it's a mystery to me," she insisted.

“It is based on antilepenism”

She thus deduced that the LFI candidate, who came third at the end of the first round with nearly 22% of the votes cast, "thought more of himself than of the French, chose the interest of his elected officials rather than the interest of his voters: he is already in the legislative elections, he imagines being the leader of the left, and therefore he bases himself on the thing likely to unite them, that is to say anti-lepenism".

Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on his voters on Sunday evening not to "give a single vote" to Marine Le Pen, who will be opposed to Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election.

"I know your anger. Don't let it come to make you make mistakes that are definitely irreparable," he urged.