It's a little phrase that stands out less than four years before the next presidential election. While Marine Le Pen would exceed 30% of the vote, regardless of the political configuration of the first round, according to a recent Ifop poll for Le Figaro, Manuel Valls has a very precise reading of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's intentions. Despite his many slippages and polemical remarks relating to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the tutelary figure of La France Insoumise would still be the third man in the election.
This is why the former prime minister, invited on Thursday evening by CNews, considers that "all this is deliberate." "Jean-Luc Mélenchon, what he wants is for the RN to win tomorrow. For chaos. So that he is the leader of the resistance," the former interior minister argued. The man who theorized the principle of the "two irreconcilable lefts" in 2016 rails, in support of his reasoning, against the "infamous remarks" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. By claiming that supporters of "unconditional support for the massacre" in Gaza had their "rendezvous" at the march against anti-Semitism organized on Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon "puts a target on our backs," Manuel Valls also castigated.
"Everything passes"
According to him, the repeated words of the former rebellious presidential candidate and his "friends" are "anti-Semitic because they are anti-Zionist." Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon's provocations an anti-Semite? "It is," thundered Manuel Valls. Who is indignant that "everything is playing" in the political soundtrack, while mocking the "cultural movement", beyond the "far left", which is fed by "wokism and cancel culture". Above all, the former prime minister believes that the country "is at a key moment in the fight against anti-Semitism and in relation to the conception of the gathering of national unity."