This time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was clear from the evening of the first round.
“
We must not give a single vote to Madame Le Pen
,” he hammered to his supporters, after learning that he had come third, failing to qualify for the second round.
However, not giving voting instructions, the Insoumis launched an online consultation, as in 2017, to decide what to do for the second round: vote Emmanuel Macron, vote blank or abstain.
The hypothesis of a Marine Le Pen vote is not proposed.
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On its website, the Insoumis recalls "
how much this opposition between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen was not up to the country's problems, particularly in the face of the ecological and social emergency
", but specifies however that "
the one and the other are not equivalent.
Marine Le Pen adds to the project of social abuse that she shares with Emmanuel Macron a dangerous ferment of ethnic and religious exclusion.
A people can be destroyed by this type of division.
We all know that it is equal to no other evil (sic)
”.
23% of his voters could vote Le Pen
It remains to be seen whether this analysis will be shared by its sympathizers.
According to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for LCI and TF1, published on April 10, the choice of the seven million voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon would be a priori much less categorical than that of their champion.
If 44% plan to turn to the blank vote, null or abstention, and that 33% plan to vote for Emmanuel Macron, they would however be 23% to choose Marine Le Pen on April 24.
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In 2017, a similar consultation had led around 240,000 Insoumis to opt for 36.12% for the blank or null vote, 34.83% for an Emmanuel Macron vote, and 29.05% in favor of abstention.
According to an Ipsos Sopra Steria survey for France Télévisions, a majority of Jean-Luc Mélenchon voters finally turned to Emmanuel Macron in the second round in 2017 (52%), 24% abstained and 7% chose to vote for Marine Le Pen.