"I'm not joking when I tell you
I'm going to be elected
, it's possible," Jean-Luc Mélenchon insisted a few days ago in l'Obs. Six months before the first round, the rebellious leader and his troops gathered this weekend in Reims (Marne) to ring the "general mobilization" on the occasion of the Union populaire convention, named after his new strategy. which aims to widen the circle of its supporters beyond rebellious France. This Sunday morning, the tribune will deliver a speech in the form of an “indictment against Macron” in front of a thousand activists in which he will decline his updated program “the Future in common”.
This summer, a survey commissioned by LFI showed that the 42 main measures of the program received a majority of favorable opinions.
"The object of this convention is to know how to translate this membership into ballots", summarizes the coordinator of LFI Adrien Quatennens.
In recent weeks, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been credited with 7% to 11% of the vote, a far cry from the 19.5% he obtained in 2017. To reach the second round, the candidate has made abstainers an electoral target priority.
"We do not want to recover a few feathers from the competitors, our reserve is in abstention, our salvation goes through popular mobilization," insists the deputy from the North.
A college tour to seduce young people
This Saturday the rebels have therefore detailed the means to achieve it. During the All Saints holidays, “the popular caravans” which had already rolled out this summer, will meet the inhabitants of the working-class neighborhoods of medium-sized towns in central France. The activists, grouped within 2,300 local groups, are tasked with knocking on a million doors by the end of the campaign. As for the deputy Alexis Corbière, he set as an objective the registration on the electoral lists of a million new registrants, arguing that there were in France "5 million unregistered and 6.7 million badly registered" on the electoral lists, the majority of employees and workers.
🔴The #JLMStGermain conference is about to begin!
Lots of people already for @JLMelenchon's conference!
The interest received by the candidate of the # UnionPopulaire among young people is impressive, the #GenerationMelenchon is a reality.
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- The Young Insoumis (@InsoumisJeunes) October 13, 2021
The rebellious leader also got it into his head to seduce young people.
After having started a cycle of conferences in the grandes écoles, relayed with great reinforcement of the hashtag # GénérationMélenchon, he must continue his tour in the universities of the country.
So many tools already tested in 2017 but which will be implemented on a “larger scale”.
In the service of a candidate, certainly divisive, but already very identified, pleads his campaign manager Manuel Bompard: "People saw what it was like when a president was elected that they did not know three years before" tackle- he does.
