More than ever, political life takes on the appearance of theater with its trays and sleight of hand. In the kingdom of illusion, the conjurer Mélenchon dethrone all the others. He lost the presidential election, on April 10, by storing himself in third place. It is however he who holds the top of the pavement, at the beard of the two finalists who appear, in contrast, surprisingly extinct. Marine Le Pen has just reappeared on Sunday, May 8, in her fief of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) after two weeks of media withdrawal. Reinvested the day before for a new mandate, Emmanuel Macron has still not appointed the new government team responsible for implementing his project. The only one who agitates, commands, garnishes the points is called Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He has become the ex-Machina deus of what he calls “the third round” of the presidential election, understand the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.
More than ever, political life looks like a farce because otherwise how to understand that two lefts who were once considered irreconcilable because in disagreement on subjects as essential as Europe, international alliances, secularism or economics market unite (almost) as a single man behind the herald of “European disobedience” and of the VI e Republic?
What was considered completely unimaginable three weeks ago has come true. Europe Ecologie-les Verts, the French Communist Party and the Socialist Party (PS) entered the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts) under the conditions of “rebellious”, in exchange for a handful of constituencies considered to be winning . The convictions were relegated behind everything else, as plastic as those supposed to defend them.
More than ever, the era is amnesiac because, if not, how to believe that the prospect of a cohabitation between Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in disagreement on any except ecological planning, may appear as a credible option?
It was to avoid too much, after three trying experiences (1986-1988; 1993-1995 and 1997-2002), that the right and the left were allied in 2000 to vote the five-year term. It should still be noted that, at the time, the European question was by no means a contention between the cohabitants.
a talented actor
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a talented actor, lined with an attractive hosny. At 70, he plays the score of his life, made believe that the radical left can govern the country. Liddated by his past failures and the dynamics he knew how to create during the last weeks of his campaign, he became the loser of the most skillful presidential election to exploit the springs of a v e Republic that he abhorred.
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