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Sometimes he has to pinch himself to believe it. For two months, Olivier Faure’s mobile phone has been overheating. The slightest of his tweets is shared thousands of times, acclaimed by the very active rebellious twittosphere. “When I tweeted during the presidential campaign, I barely exceeded a few dozen likes,” he recalls in private. This is how, since his “crazy bet” to top with Jean-Luc Mélenchon to conclude the alliance on the left of Nupes and thus save the PS group in the Assembly, the Socialist First Secretary, formerly hated, has become the darling of the Unsubmissive.