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Guillaume Tabard: "The left between great principles and small interests"

2023-05-05T18:04:23.966Z


COUNTERPOINT - Whether behind Mélenchon, Ruffin or anyone else, the left will have difficulty finding a majority vocation.


Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a constant man.

He succeeds in his presidential campaigns but he does not know how to transform the test.

In 2017, his nearly 20% was an unforeseen feat.

A year later, his

"the Republic is me"

had weakened his image among his people and he had been unable to politically transform the social protest of the reform of the SNCF and work orders.

In 2022, its 22% and, even more, the awakening of the union of the left via Nupes was a new feat.

A year later, the same Mélenchon is no longer an unbreakable statue among his people and, once again, he has shown himself unable to politically bring opposition to the pension reform.

But political history is never cyclical and, for the rebel in chief, the years also pass.

Just as the majority and the right are already thinking about post-Macron, the left is already preparing for post-Mélenchon.

If Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not believe in an awakening neither of the PC, nor of the PS, nor of the EELV, the former Trotskyist has mistrust in his genes

It is because he is aware of this that the three-time presidential candidate…

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Source: lefigaro

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