Mr. Mélenchon, who gathered 21.95% of the vote on April 10, said he would run for this post, whether the President of the Republic elected on Sunday is Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen.
"I will be the Prime Minister, not by the favor of Mr. Macron or Mrs. Le Pen, but by the French who elected me", he said on BFMTV, during his first speech since the evening of the first round.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore aims to impose cohabitation on the future winner of the presidential election.
Believing that the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 will constitute a "third round", Jean-Luc Mélenchon extends his hand to the left, while negotiations with EELV and the PCF have begun: "I call on all those who want to join the Union Populaire to join us for this great battle. So there is a third round, there is not only a second round".
Contrary to what he said at the start of his presidential campaign, "this is not a mousehole, there is a door which is there, you take it or you choose the other", he said. he rocks.
A cohabitation, "if it does not suit the president, he can go away, I will not go away", warned Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said he wanted to be "the Prime Minister to apply (his) program".
"I'm not negotiating with anyone," he said, explaining that he did not respond to Emmanuel Macron's call to unsuccessful first-round candidates.
Does he have a preference between being at Matignon under the Macron presidency or under the Le Pen presidency?
"No", he replied, while saying, like his instruction not to "give a single voice to Mrs. Le Pen", that "the two are not of the same nature".
But "the question of who is president at that time" of cohabitation does not count in his eyes, because "it is the Prime Minister who signs the decrees", he said, adding that he wanted to pass his program.
The outgoing Bouches-du-Rhône deputy did not want to indicate whether he would stand for re-election, while considering that there is "no need to be a deputy to be Prime Minister".
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