Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not yet "made the hole" on the left.
If he is ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the socialist Anne Hidalgo in the polls (both are measured around 6%), the LFI candidate is struggling to widen the gap, stabilizing around 10% of voting intentions.
The rebels dream of grabbing a few points by Christmas to fold the match to the left and appear as the only alternative to Macron and to the right.
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In this context, opinion polls are watched like milk on the fire by LFI.
"Everyone knows that the polls have a power of prediction and installation of a political landscape which is enormous"
, underlines Manuel Bompard, the director of the campaign.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon detailed Wednesday evening in front of the students of Sciences Po Paris:
“A few years ago, we were on a hard line: the poll creates its own reality, so we don't talk about it, it's a scam.
We held out like this but as the polls have a power
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