It's no surprise, but it's now official.
From his constituency of Marseille on Thursday evening, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced that he would not be a candidate for the legislative elections next June.
As
Le Figaro
announced, it is indeed his former campaign manager Manuel Bompard who will replace him in this 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône.
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It must be said that for a few days the former presidential candidate, who won 21.95% of the vote, left no room for doubt.
On France 2 10 days ago, Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated that his presence on the starting line "
was not necessary
", even if he covets to be the head of government of Emmanuel Macron and to impose on him a cohabitation.
And to add: “
Six prime ministers out of twenty-four were not
(candidate, editor’s note)
.
And by the way the last one.
Mr. Castex: he had popular legitimacy because he is mayor of Prades.
He had 1000 votes for that,
analyzes the outgoing deputy from Marseille.
Me, I had 7.7 million a month ago.
One might think that I have sufficient popular legitimacy to be able to represent the country with dignity.
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