Meeting Wednesday evening, the Montreuillois supports of Jean-Luc Mélenchon regretted the weak attacks of the outgoing President as to the “fascist” inheritance of Marine Le Pen. And also deplored a form of agreement on economic topics.
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This debate of the between-two-turn, the “insou” did not expect much. In Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), where the candidate of France Insouchaise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, raised 55.22% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, it is without illusion. That his followers gathered, Wednesday, April 20, in a small bar of neighboring beers and mayonnais fries.
“Tonight we will row for three hours, feel a little excluded from the discussion but it’s nice to do it together,” said the member (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière, judging the voters “orphans of a conversation that will not take place on the social question”.
After a reception session of the new activists, Olivier Madaule, Deputy Mayor and Local LFI Manager, traces the path of these disappointed first round. “The next day it was hard, people wanted to vote white, but more and more, it leans macron”, he assures. However, it does not accumulate the crowd of the big days for this collective listening session. “To be able to vote for Macron, it is better sometimes not to hear too much”, is it measured. Past the aperitif, some collapse. “The debates, it’s a bit annoying,” launches a member of the neighboring group of action. Sunday, he will abstain, but said to his friends who hesitate between white vote and vote Macron: “Your choice will be the right.”
” They agree to lie together “
Others remain, without enthusiasm. Macronists? Alexandre Giraud, local activist, judges their “zero” campaign and has only one advice to give them: “The best thing they can do is shut up. Whenever they open your mouth, They lose points. “Unlike 2017, when he had abused, the young man this time thinks a Macron newsletter, because the perspective of the accession of the extreme right to power is he became concrete. He will finally listen to these two and a half hours from one end to the other, without clogging the ears.
Why come? “At least one is not alone in front of his TV, in the sinistosis in front of the right and the extreme right”, considers a sympathizer.
The debate begins. The national rally candidate (NR), Marine Le Pen, speaks of “national fraternity”, which triggers sighs in the room. “One and the other, we can agree,” says Emmanuel Macron to the extreme right. A Bagnoltaise reacts: “They lie. They agree to lie together.” Comes the subject of pensions, everyone unfolds his project. Emmanuel Macron speaks amount and duration. “And the age, he’s going to talk about it?”, Exclaims one. As for Marine Le Pen, she interrupts it to slip a track, “60 years and forty annuities”. “But it’s not your project is Jean-Luc Mélenchon!” It’s up to him in the room.
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