At the end of the campaign, difficult to distinguish whether attempts to drive the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) as to his positioned positions for the Russian regime worn. The war has also put the left in the face of its ecological contradictions.
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A “developer” for some, the controversial harm and a few foot changes for others. With the irruption of the war in Ukraine in the presidential campaign, Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-Les Verts) and Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party) found the subject to attack the candidate of the People’s Union, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who goes to the head on the left. In polls, difficult for the time to distinguish the effect of these critics on the electors on the left.
Do they think, as Yannick Jadot said, Tuesday on LCI, that the war revealed “principles, values”, with, on the one hand, “those who defend democracy everywhere” and, of the Another, “some who consider that democracy, it’s important at home, but when it’s the others, it can be relativised”? Are they sensitive to Anne Hidalgo’s argument, who, in the Express, felt that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, was a member of “agents who served the interests of Putin rather than Those of France, trying to mitigate what the Russian regime was preparing against Europe and our democratic models “? The vote will say it. One thing is certain, the war in Ukraine did not move the geopolitical software of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, if decried by its competitors, but it forced it to adapt a little form.
The leader of France unsuitable (LFI) has reduced the place granted in his speeches to the thesis of the Sphere of Russian influence, to that of the provocations of which Westerly were guilty through NATO. Of Ukraine, he said, in 2015, “this country which has so much trouble to be one”, in a blog note, where he also felt that Vladimir Putin was “the first political victim” of the assassination Boris Nemtsov opponent. Since then, he has been in the side of the “Ukrainian people”. As for the Russian president, he “should not dream, he will be at the ban of the international community,” he said on France Inter, Wednesday. But in this war, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recognizes at most an error of appreciation. And again, it imputes it to others.
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At the same microphone, he said to have “learned [her] expenses to be skeptical, noting that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the french armor staff, had been the first to put remotely Washington assessments on the risk of an imminent war, in February. “And yet, it was the Americans who were right …” On this point, the limogear of the chief of intelligence of the armies in France supports his argument. As for the rest, he maintained: “The French must be absolutely sovereigns, we will not defend themselves.” Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not cille for his position “not aligned”, which, he says, do not does not mean “neutrality”. On the left, they were several before the war to criticize NATO. The communist candidate, Fabien Roussel, has now put away the idea of getting out, yet present in his program; Yannick Jadot, who felt in 2019 that it was an “empty shell”, now limited to defending the need for a European defense. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he maintains.
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