The prospect of "another world", to use his campaign slogan, did not allow him to reach the second round.
If the Insoumis hoped that his third participation in the presidential election would be good, in the manner of François Mitterrand, on the evening of the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained 20.1% of the vote, according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for Le Parisien, France Télévisions and Radio France.
That's a little more than a point more
than five years ago, when the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône won 19.58% of the vote, already leaving him at the gates of the second round in favor of Marine Le Pen (RN).
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Despite strong rallies, the former Keeper of the Seals and short-lived candidate Christiane Taubira in the lead, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's camp has once again suffered from the fragmentation of the French left, which has not had the heart to come together behind his candidacy.
Dividing by nature, the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône will also have suffered from his ambiguous statements on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and his supposed complacency vis-à-vis the regime of Vladimir Putin.
In view of the starving scores of his competitors on the left (2.1% for Anne Hidalgo's PS, 2.7% for Fabien Roussel's PCF and 4.4% for EELV and Yannick Jadot), Jean-Luc Mélenchon will have however, clearly benefited from the useful vote of left-wing supporters, even if that was not enough to block Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.