Ira, won’t you? Jean-Luc Mélenchon will probably unveil his decision on his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election at 8 p.m. TFI on Sunday. Saturday morning, LFI deputies must meet around their leader, a meeting at the end of which “without a doubt a decision will be taken”, assured this Friday on LCI deputy Alexis Corbière.
A few hours before the leader of the Insoumis displays the color, this expectation is anyway without real suspense so much, except for a dramatic turn, the leader of France Insoumise is already carried by his party to present himself for the third time in the supreme magistracy. “I am deeply convinced that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the right profile for this election,” says Adrien Quatennens, LFI deputy from the North, and coordinator of the movement. “I do not think that anyone can think of being better placed than Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the next presidential election”, asserts, for his part, Eric Coquerel, deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.
It’s been a few weeks since Mélenchon could have unveiled his intentions. “There was the reconfinement, the terrorist attacks… Can you imagine Mélenchon or anyone else evoking the presidential election in such a context? »Pleads a rebellious. However, except events of force majeure, nothing should now prevent the deputy from Marseille to come out of the woods. “I have the impression that this will never be the right time, because waiting for the end of the crisis is asking us to empty with our hands a sea of skepticism and incompetence”, recently confided Mélenchon. However, continues the one who approached 20% of the vote in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, “to build a positive majority, we need a long campaign. “To hear the truth …
Another reason, modestly kills, that pushes the LFI leader to throw himself into the water: defuse competing ambitions within his own movement. Last May, François Ruffin, the Somme MP, said he was “leaving the door open” to a candidacy. “If I ever have to pick up the flag, I’ll go pick it up,” said the free electron of the movement on BFMTV. “For now, the flag is firmly held,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon retorted immediately.
Clémentine Autain not far away
Another independent figure of the rebels, Clémentine Autain also lets speculation on his presidential claims flourish. Very critical of the solitary strategy of the leader of the Insoumis, the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis founded last year with the Communist deputy Elsa Faucillon, the “big bang of the left”, with the aim of bringing together forces from the left. In vain, for the moment.
Mélenchon, faithful to his program of refounding the Fifth Republic, has already warned that, if he presented himself, he would apply the new rules that he and his group of deputies included in a recent bill, namely to ask for the sponsorship of 150,000 citizens registered on the electoral rolls. A way of distilling a little country air …
Questions about its ability to unite on the left
If, with a few exceptions, elected officials unreservedly support their leader, voters or supporters of France Insoumise do not all share the same enthusiasm. Near the Robert-Ballanger hospital, an intercommunal establishment in Villepinte and Aulnay (Seine-Saint-Denis), Sylvie, a 45-year-old hospital worker, remains convinced. “I have been voting for Jean-Luc Mélenchon for a long time. I like his frankness. He thinks it’s mess everywhere and he’s right. He’s a real leftist. When I see the homeless in the entrance to the hospital and the government, like the previous ones, lets them die… ”
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