Presidential 2022: Jean-Luc Mélenchon brings together crowds in a staging “for peace”

In Meeting in Lyon, Sunday, the candidate of the People’s Union attempted to bring the criticisms of his socialist and environmental competitors as to his positioning vis-à-vis Russia.

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The war in Ukraine, which dominates the French presidential campaign, could have sabotaged the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Its left-handed competitors are used in any case, describing it as a complacent vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin, unrealistic or even dangerous in his idea of ​​dialogue with Russia. For the moment, the candidate of the People’s Union does not seem affected. The criticism of the ecologists and socialists, the hours of the other deputies “walkers” in the National Assembly last Tuesday, he has cure. And besides, the left, it was almost no longer spoken on Sunday, March 6, in Meeting in Lyon in the Rousse Cross district, or quickly at the turn of a sentence to denounce false trials.

On the esplanade of the big pebble, the candidate of the People’s Union has more than ever gathered the crowds, 15,000 people according to the organizers. The place was crowded. And polls by 12% voting intentions, just over two points of the second round ticket, according to the latest edition of the IPSOS survey for the Jean Jaurès Foundation, CEVIPOF and Le Monde .

Even the popular primary passed, on Saturday, the vote of the registrants who had granted the second place in Yannick Jadot, and voted in format reduces the support for the Campaign of the People’s Union, after the withdrawal from Christiane Taubira. Meanwhile, the “insou” count the points in this battle of effective voting on the left. “This choice of popular primary says something, the idea that is settling is that to win you have to be with Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, wants to believe Manuel Bompard, his country director, who has Asked to meet the popular primary to agree on the modalities of the “independently” campaign that they intend to lead for the member of the Bouches-du-Rhône.

After the exclusion of Sandrine Rousseau of Yannick Jadot’s campaign team, some to the unsightly France hope for her next signal, even though everyone keeps abrupt. His former spokesman Thomas Doors, who joined the Parliament of the People’s Union, has seen the day after his foreclosure for a conversation with friends who did not at this stage of political outlet, he ensures that he . The decision of Yannick Jadot makes in any case born of doubts about the place of the political future of M me Rousseau, of which the “insou” rejected.

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As for the attacks come from the left … accused of being an accomplice of a dictatorship, the candidate operated on Sunday a skill, without changing the substance of his position in foreign policy. “Stop to war, stop at the Putin War!” He started opening his meeting. At the entrance, a militant distributes olive twigs to hang at the buttonhole, the speakers pass pacifist songs. Any atmosphere to accredit the idea that, yes, vote Jean-Luc Mélenchon is voting for peace.

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