Presidential: during his hologram meeting, Mélenchon curbs Le Pen to convince the “fachés pas fachos”

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“Here (there are) three days left… We feel our destiny at our fingertips”. This Tuesday evening, it is a little after 9:30 p.m. and Jean-Luc Mélenchon is pronouncing the last sentences of his last campaign meeting before the first round. In front of him, 10,000 supporters are gathered at the Grand Palais in Lille (North) and 10,000 more in eleven cities in France listen to his hologram broadcast live. As in 2017, the rebellious candidate relied on this technological trick to get people talking about him and to reach as many people as possible. But for his third campaign, now firmly installed in the chair of third man, the rebellious candidate wants to believe that the ticket for the second round is within reach.

He remembers that five years ago, he had missed 600,000 votes to do so, “6 per polling station” he sighs. So the tribune calls each of his supporters to their “responsibility”, urging them to multiply in the coming days. “Choose in conscience and convince those around you in conscience”. But tonight, beyond his supporters, Mélenchon was particularly keen to convince voters tempted by Marine Le Pen, these “angry not fachos”, an expression he will use three times. The MP for Marseille knows that this is where the key to his bet lies. In our daily Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for Le Parisien – Today In France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon continues to progress, at 16.5% of the intentions to vote, he remains behind the candidate of the National Rally by four points, even if the gap tends to decrease.

“Listen, you angry people and not fascists, where does it lead you to want to bring this woman to power, he asks. Everything she proposes is tinged with class contempt”. And the Insoumis to recall that the candidate RN is against the blocking of prices, one of the sentence measures of the Insoumis and to criticize her “absence” in the Assembly during the debate on the pension reform or during the examination bills on the nationalization of highways, the RSA for young people aged 18 to 25 or the restoration of taxes. He goes so far as to mock his interest in cats. “Here she is repainted as an animalist. But then the friend of cats, and on factory farms, what does she say? Nothing. What about cage farming, and cruel hunts? Nothing “. And to drive the point home, to the address of his potential voters: “Tell me what is the point of bringing to power someone who is so far removed from the concerns of your most elementary life? “.

“The end of the presidential monarchy”

But in his speech, one of the longest of his campaign, Mélenchon also slammed the outgoing president, mocking the wealth trickle theory championed by Emmanuel Macron at the start of his term. “It’s not a runoff that there was, it’s a vacuum cleaner” mocks the candidate of the People’s Union. Likewise, he promises “the end of the presidential monarchy which has been taken to caricature heights by Mr. Macron” which he would replace with a Sixth Republic. “We have no more time to lose with a president who has already been condemned twice for his climate inaction” adds the pretender to the Elysée, this time giving a nod to the ecologist electorate. “It will be a question for us by all means of keeping at all costs the roadmap of the Paris agreement, of the Cop 21, so that France is up to the challenges of humanity” undertakes he.

Because, to have a chance of reaching the second round, Jean-Luc Mélenchon must grab as many votes as possible, those of the working classes and abstentionists but also some of those who still go to the left-wing candidates and who could tip in its favor by virtue of an “effective vote”. This Tuesday evening, Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore dramatized the issue. “We know that we can carry the most incredible political bifurcation that one can imagine” he warns.

Proof that the LFI candidate believes in his chances, he has already scheduled a meeting between the two rounds. “If you carry our candidacy and our program in the second round, which is in the order of things possible, I’ll meet you the following Sunday, probably at the Charléty stadium (in Paris). And there we will gather by the thousands to show that we are determined to change the world because that is what we will do if we win this election”. Charléty, the reference to the big meeting between the two rounds of the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal in 2007, is clearly assumed by the candidate’s teams.

“Everything is already ready, the stadium is reserved” confides a close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who wants to believe in “a crystallization of the votes in the last three days” of the official campaign. Campaign director, Manuel Bompard sees with a good eye the rebound in the polls of the last few hours. “Trends at the beginning of the week tend to amplify. And the results of the polls on Thursday and Friday will not be those of Sunday” warns the MEP, anticipating a dynamic carrying Jean-Luc Mélenchon on April 10. Unlike Emmanuel Macron who would be in a downward phase according to Manuel Bompard: “He is on a toboggan, he is too clever”. Clearly, the morale displayed is good among the Insoumis. At the end of his meeting, the candidate launched the traditional Marseillaise with this warning: “It’s the anthem of the French Revolution, an unfinished revolution…”

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