after the barrage from his allies, Mélenchon assures that he is “a candidate for nothing” – Libération

The rebellious leader returned to France on Monday evening on the controversy pitting him against Marine Tondelier, Olivier Faure and Fabien Roussel, the three leaders of the other parties in the left alliance opposed to his appointment to Matignon. If the latter criticize him for media activism that is harmful to their collective dynamic, he believes, on the contrary, that his name “opens doors”.

From time to time, the national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, knows how to be cash. At the dawn of the European elections, for example, it was she who most clearly rejected the idea, supported by La France insoumise, of a single list of the entire left. “When it’s no, it’s no. […] we have to stop being pushy”, she thus blurted out to the attention of the Mélenchonist movement. This Monday, June 24, the opposition representative from Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) was just as clear on another subject. Jean-Luc Mélenchon “is not the leader of the New Popular Front and he will not be Prime Minister”, she assured in an interview with AFP while the question polluted the campaign of the left united since the announcement of the dissolution, on the evening of June 9. The latest arrow in an attack coordinated with his communist and socialist counterparts, Fabien Roussel and Olivier Faure, a few hours before a new intervention by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 2.

“I am not a candidate for anythingsaid the former elected official for Essonne and then Bouches-du-Rhône. This is not the subject for me, there is a misunderstanding