Jean-Luc Mélenchon fails at doors of second round but improves his score

For his third presidential candidacy, the member France unsuitable for Bouches-du-Rhône settles a little more in the left, Sunday 10 April. “LL Do not give a single voice to Madame Le Pen,” he repeated three times, preventing critics.

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The winter circus has become silent, two minutes before the result of the presidential election. In the ranks of France unsuitable, the faces were closed, upon the opening of this election evening, Sunday, April 10th. The chopper falls, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is third, with 21.7% of the votes. If some collapse in tears, one hears especially his followers singing: “We are there, even if Macron does not want us we are there.”

In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had felt his defeat as a “burn”. He has this time mentioned the “violence of disappointment”. “It’s a disappointment but at the same time how to hide the pride of the accomplished work, the popular pole exists, he has resumed forces,” he added, surrounded on stage of Mathilde Panot, Aurélie found, Manuel Bompard and Younous Omarjee.

At his constituents, he launched, “I know your anger, do not give yourself abandoning you, mistakes that would be irreparable … As long as life continues the fight continues.” “LL Do not give one voice to Madame Le Pen, “he repeated three times, preventing critics. Without pronouncing the name of Emmanuel Macron.

The good figures of overseas, including Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana where the member for Bouches-du-Rhône has campaigned more than any other candidate, gave him hope in the morning. But in the day, the numbers in metropolis, without appeal, was reversed. In the afternoon, the candidate, on the spot, worked, specifies his entourage. Surrounded by his relatives and some deputies, studying the lifts, he prepared his speech. Among its support, some do not hesitate to attack the other candidates on the left. “Jadot, Hidalgo, Roussel, all three wear a very heavy responsibility in the fact that we are not in the second round,” says Lawyer Caroline Mecary, a member of the Parliament of the People’s Union. She sees, however, in this score a good base for the legislative, to which she plans to apply.

question for the after

The member of the European member Younous Omarjee, meanwhile, retains this conclusion: “In France the only pole of resistance to the right is done in an opposition without concession to neoliberalism”. In this ideological battle, these 20.10% install Jean-Luc Mélenchon, even more than in 2017, does he want to believe.

The left electorate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to have aspirated him, leaving only crumbs to his competitors, respectively 4.40% in Yannick Jadot, 2.70% in Fabien Rousel, 2.10% to Anne Hidalgo. The two Trotskyist candidates, Nathalie Arthaud and Philippe Poutou (new anticapitalist) also make the costs with less than 1% of the votes. In recent days, the rocker movement has become amplified, affecting the parties. Fifty members of generation.s have, for example, called to vote for him, Thursday, at the price of being excluded from the former movement of Benoît Hamon.

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