Like nothing ever happened. Almost 24 hours after Anne Hidalgo's proposal for a primary of the whole left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has still not deigned to respond to the socialist candidate. In fact, the member for Marseille does not feel concerned. Within the LFI house, the question does not arise: he remains as the natural and irremediable candidate. The rest is just literature. This stability, which has lasted since 2012 - sometimes criticized by former rebels who deplore the lack of internal democracy - will end after the presidential election. Jean-Luc Mélenchon warned: 2022 will be his last race at the Élysée. In case of defeat, someone other than himself
will "carry the flag"
in five years, in 2027. If this question of succession is on everyone's mind, it remains a taboo among the rebels, almost unthought of.
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