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Jean-Luc-Mélenchon, here in 2017, calls for under no circumstances to vote for the RN in the second round of the 2024 legislative elections.
POLITICS – Voting instructions. La France insoumise (LFI) will ask its voters on Sunday evening, at the end of the first round of the legislative elections, not to give their vote to candidates from the National Rally (RN) in the second round, where left-wing candidates do not will be more present, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared this Wednesday, June 26.
“No Insoumis voter, I am certain, will never give their vote to the National Rally. And we will tell them that no one has to do this stupid thing, whatever their motive.”he indicated on LCI, specifying that voting instructions would be given on Sunday evening after the first round of voting.
The Insoumis leader felt that the only “unknown”on this question of withdrawals between two rounds, resided in the position of the Macronists who “established a link between National Rally and France Insoumise”. At this stage, the majority’s instruction is: « ni-ni » : you LFI, you RN.
Mélenchon deplores the “neither-neither” of Renaissance
“In other words, not only are they doing an abomination which amounts to helping the “National Front”, but also they would like to sort within the members of the Popular Front (the left alliance) to say this one yes, this one -non “he added.
Several socialist and environmentalist leaders, including the leader of the Greens Marine Tondelier, called on the macronie for agreements of mutual withdrawal in the event of a triangular in order to beat the candidates of the RN, the big favorite in these elections. For his part, François Hollande interviewed by BFMTV was clear: “Withdrawal must be automatic as soon as there is a risk of election (of an RN candidate).
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon also repeated that he refused to exclude himself from a possible nomination to Matignon if the left was in the majority on July 7. “I neither say yes nor no”he said, claiming the support of many left-wing voters.
Almost simultaneously on TF1, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, reaffirmed his hostility to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s accession to Matignon: “It can’t be Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it won’t be Jean-Luc Mélenchon. »
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