“Strategist” Manuel Bompard in the running to succeed Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The doctor in mathematics presides over the destiny of the party and its leader.

“I repeat: I wish to be replaced,” he says of his role in the LFI. The national coordinator of LFI confirms that he is “working” on the succession of the three-time candidate in the presidential election. He is described by those close to him as a “genius strategist”