In the great western of the French left, these last few months resemble these scenes in the desert where balls of dry grass roll limply.
Generally bleak passages, where the risk of nosediving increases, while waiting for the final bouquet, this time dazzling and explosive: the cowboy duel with revolvers.
This is roughly where the left is at the start of 2024. The battle is announced, almost certain, but will not break out right away.
“This is going to seem incredibly long…”
, one of the protagonists of the future brawl almost apologizes.
However, preparations are well underway.
Two camps sharpen their weapons.
The first brings together all those who want a common presidential candidacy, as long as it is not embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
If it remains high in the polls, Insoumis has become, in their eyes, too divisive, not to say radioactive.
An environmentalist executive sums up the paradox:
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon
remains the best left-wing candidate in the first round, he is not far from being the worst in the second”
.
On the other hand, the hard core of La France Insoumise dreams, conversely, of putting its champion back in the saddle for a fourth adventure on the road to the Élysée.
“Who better than him can represent the left today?
François Ruffin?
Olivier Faure?
Seriously?"
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