Jean-Luc Mélenchon still promises revolution but fears that the cards, on the left, will be reshuffled. As in The International , he believes that "the world will change its base" , but it is sitting on his score yesterday that he looks at the presidential election tomorrow. When he enumerates the reasons pleading for a third candidacy for the Élysée Palace, the leader of La France insoumise highlights his two past attempts and the seven million votes obtained in 2017; high score certainly but which - he would eventually forget - did not qualify for the second round.
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The argument has its value. Mélenchon has a taste for history, a sense of continuity and the merit of consistency in his battles. But is revolutionary mysticism compatible with a rentier spirit? The deputy for Marseille pretends to believe that these seven million votes are a capital acquired once and for all, which, well placed, can only increase. However, he who accuses Emmanuel Macron, his ideal enemy, of having
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