At the end of an election evening with Russian mountain tunes, the candidate of France unsuitably failed a few tenths of Marine Pen points. But he consolidated his first place on the left.
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The craziest campaign evening was not necessarily, Sunday, April 10, in the winning staff. At the circus of winter, in Paris, around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the emotional elevator has sometimes been violent. The activists of France unsuitable (LFI) have cried in turn, then dreamed. For the former socialist senator, this Sunday was first of all of an honorable defeat, dressed in victory, then a hoped hope. In vain, because the final results have not changed the order of the poll. The candidate of the People Union finishes third, with 21.95% of the vote. But for a little over an hour, his supports believed there.
Everything starts a little after 18 hours. The polls circulating give the candidate a third place solid, unambiguous, with a significant gap. The candidate is at work, surrounded by his first circle, he prepares a speech to give this defeat of the victory. The winter circus becomes silent, two minutes before 20 hours. The chopper falls. If some collapse in tears, we hear especially his followers singing: “We are there, even if Macron does not want it, we are there.”
Despite the disappointment, everyone in LFI, and the candidate first, works to give a positive color to this score, which surpasses that of 2017 (19.58%) and confers on the campaign of the Popular Union An incontestable first place on the left. If, in 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had been able to give the feeling of instantly dispaid his political capital, delayed the result and by recovering the question of the dam on the far right, five years later, he does all the ‘inverse.
“ll should not give one voice to M me le pen”
It comes smiling around 8:45 am, surrounded by his loved ones, Sophia Chikirou, Manuel Bompard, Younous Omarjee, Mathilde Panot. They are preparing to descend from the platform to let him speak alone, he retains them, taking Mathilde Panot by the arm, and puts a point of honor to express himself surrounded by those he has designated as his succession. The question of the Republican dam is approached from the outset, although without mentioning Emmanuel Macron: “The only task we have to give itself is the one that the myth of Sisyphus is accomplished, the stone falls down the ravine, eh Well we go back, he says. I know your anger, do not give up what it would make you make mistakes that would be irreparable … As long as life continues, the fight continues. “” We know for whom we do not Never will vote, “he continues. “LL should not give one voice to M me Le Pen,” he repeats by three times, preventing the critics.
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