The flirtation between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Arnaud Montebourg, it's already over

“It had to happen, but not so fast!

This elected socialist, close to Olivier Faure, the number one of the PS, is only half astonished at the turn that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has just started with respect to Arnaud Montebourg.

“The openness to the political right that Montebourg recommends […] The compliments of number two of LR

and those of Xavier Bertrand

attest to a dialogue that does not not suitable, ”writes dryly, in a post posted Monday on his blog, the boss of the Insoumis.

"I do not believe that there can exist a real convergence between right-wing party and political left-wing formations", tackles Mélenchon.

The benevolence displayed publicly by the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, officially campaigning for the presidential election of 2022, towards the former socialist minister who, for his part, carefully prepares his probable candidacy, therefore seems to have already lived ...

In Mélenchon's collimator, Montebourg's desire to "unencyster" France from the right-left cleavage and to build a transpartisan political arc.

In addition to the glances thrown at him by several LR leaders, Montebourg also contacted the mayor (LR) of Cannes David Lisnard.

And on January 25, it is alongside MP (LR) Marc Le Fur that he will meet Nokia employees in Côtes-d'Armor.

His entourage may want to relativize these reconciliations - "There will be zero device agreement and zero poaching on the right", tempered one of his relatives, Sunday, in our columns - the Insubordinates, them, have now put the Socialist under surveillance.

Collusion turns into competition

However, they welcomed the return to the political arena of the man who, since leaving the government in August 2014, has converted to business creation.

Montebourg “is very useful and even profitable”, applauded Mélenchon.

The sovereignist, anti-globalization and Eurosceptic positions developed by the former candidate for the primary of the left in 2017 in his latest book "The Commitment" or the need to renovate institutions?

"I note with satisfaction that many of our words are found there", further underlined, not without irony, the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône.

"The vocabulary of the Insoumis has spread well", welcomes a close friend of Mélenchon.

Another tip of the hat to the former minister, nothing in The Commitment "gives way to the anti-Muslim obsession sadly characteristic of the moment", recently underlined the number One of the Insoumis.

All these satisfecit which sounded like so many outstretched hands and discreet calls of the foot thus seem to be shattered.

It is true that the race towards the Elysée is accelerating and that connivance turns into competition.

"The political space that Arnaud Montebourg must conquer to be put into orbit by 2022 is on his left and he must therefore target the electorate of La France Insoumise", analyzes a socialist deputy.

A prerequisite that has of course not escaped Montebourg.

His team would thus have taken up the language with the Republican and Socialist Left (GRS), co-founded by Emmanuel Maurel, MEP elected in 2019 on the list of rebellious France.

While François Cocq, a former leader of LFI excluded in 2019, has taken the plunge by joining the inner circle of the former socialist minister.

A year and a half before the presidential election, the “twin brothers” are already turning into “enemy brothers.

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