Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be back. Invited to speak at 8 p.m. on France 2 this Friday evening to react to the “historic” electoral agreement between LFI, the PS, EELV and the PCF with a view to the legislative elections of next June, the leader of the Insoumis indicated that he would “probably” not be a candidate, either for his succession in the Bouches-du-Rhône or elsewhere.
“It is not necessary”, justified the leader of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes in particular that the “7.5 million votes” he obtained at the end of the first round of the presidential election would give him “sufficient legitimacy” if he were to become Prime Minister in the outcome of the legislative.
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“Jean Castex draws his legitimacy from his mandate as mayor of Prades, he had 1,000 votes for that. I had 7.5 million a month ago, ”he said.
“We must fight everywhere”
On BFMTV, during the between-two-rounds, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had already hinted that he would not be a candidate for his succession. “I will fight the battle” but not necessarily by being a candidate for deputy because “we have to fight everywhere and not in a single constituency”, he explained, considering that it was “not the most urgent decision” .
The Insoumis has accomplished the feat of bringing together the main left-wing parties under the banner of Nupes, which will hold its first investiture ceremony on Saturday. “We had to resolve in 13 days what had been sources of conflict for 10 years,” he congratulated. He assures him, the “New popular union”, as he calls it himself, is “an electoral agreement” intended to last, nevertheless, each party “will have its group in the Assembly, otherwise it will not work” .