The leader of rebellious France will not stand for the legislative elections. The European deputy will campaign in the 4th district of the Bouches-du-Rhône
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At the bend of a sentence, released in the last minutes of a speech of almost an hour, Jean-Luc Mélenchon both confirmed that he was not presented to the legislative elections, put an end to His Marseille adventure that has lasted since 2017, and inducted his successor in the fourth district of Bouches-du-Rhône, of its presidential campaign director, the European deputy Manuel Bompard.
Thursday, May 12, at the foot of his parliamentary permanence in front of a few hundred activists, the leader of rebellious France knowingly avoided giving this expected event the solemnity of a witness. Box of the other Marseille candidates of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), he preferred to decline what his action would be as Prime Minister and attack the policy of “monarch” Macron.
Silent at the gallery, Manuel Bompard did not say his first words as a candidate until a few minutes later. By benefiting from the inauguration of the new popular union in this territory which votes resolutely on the left, the European deputy, 36, sees his parachuting doubling an inheritance. In the first round of the presidential election, this district, which extends in particular to the first three districts of the city and includes very paved neighborhoods, gave 54.4 % of its votes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “I am going to address these voters first, and tell them that if they re-edit their vote, we can even be elected in the first round,” projected Manuel Bompard, who revealed to have settled In the city for a few months and says he wants to “build [his] political career in Marseille”. If he was elected to the National Assembly, he confirmed that he will abandon his function of European deputy. But not its major role in the LFI organization chart.