The candidate of La Francia Insumisa presents the presidential elections as “a social referendum” against Macron
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France Insumisa for the French presidential elections, seeks to attract the vote of the left to qualify for the second round and be able to face outgoing president Emmanuel Macron in April at the polls, who starts as the favorite in these elections.
Mélenchon presents the presidential elections as “a social referendum” against Macron. “Vote for Macron and you will have retirement at 65 years old or vote for Mélenchon and you will have retirement at 60 years old,” promised the candidate of the La France Insumisa party, the equivalent of Podemos in France.
The leftist politician denounced Macron’s “authoritarian drift” in these five years at the Elysee Palace. Mélenchon promised that if he wins the elections on April 24 he will give “amnesty” to the convicted “yellow vests”, compensate the victims of police violence and readmit doctors and nurses “expelled from the hospital” to hospitals for not being vaccinated against the virus. Covid.
The far-left candidate also promised that if he is elected president the minimum wage will be 1,400 euros, he will freeze the price of gasoline and decree free transportation for the duration of the fuel crisis.
The leftist leader displayed political muscle by calling today a large demonstration in Paris in favor of the establishment of the VI Republic in France. According to the organizers, 100,000 people participated in the march.
This French politician dreams of “abolishing the presidential monarchy.” He denounces that, in the Fifth Republic, the president concentrates too much power in his hands. He proposes the convening of a Constituent Assembly to draw up a new French Constitution to establish the VI Republic.
Mélenchon, third in the voting intention polls behind Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen, today urged the French to vote for him. He reminded them that they have “the key” that “opens the door of the second round.”
The leader of La Francia Insumisa is the only left-wing candidate with a chance of qualifying for the second round. In the French electoral system, of the twelve candidates who stand for election, only the two with the most votes will compete for the keys to the Elysee.
Mélenchon presents himself these days to voters as “a sagacious tortoise”, capable of overtaking the “hares” of the right and the extreme right and sneaking into the second round. The candidate alludes to the famous fable “The Hare and the Tortoise” by Jean de La Fontaine.
If this Sunday the first round of the presidential elections were held in France, Macron would obtain 29.5% of the votes and Le Pen, 18.5%, according to the latest poll published by the Sunday Le Journal du Dimanche. Mélenchon would get 13% of the vote, followed by far-right Éric Zemmour with 12% and moderate conservative Valérie Pécresse with 11%. The ecologist Yannick Jadot would achieve 5.5% support; the communist Fabien Roussel, 4%; and the socialist Anne Hidalgo, only 2% of the votes.
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