We must see them again, in February 2012, on the set of France 2, he, mocking, she, exasperated, sending a few pleasantries in the face as a preamble to a debate which ultimately did not take place, because she had preferred to browse the newspaper on tray. Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have since often worked in parallel to build their incarnation as opponents of Emmanuel Macron, although the paths have sometimes crossed, as in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) in 2012 , the time of a disastrous legislative election for him, or during the “yellow vest” crisis in 2018-2019, from which everyone would have liked to benefit from the breath.
Their interactions have become extremely rare, their electorates hardly overlap anymore, but their interests, in recent weeks, seem to converge: both are eager for an acceleration of the electoral calendar and to find themselves face to face in the second round of the presidential election. Marine Le Pen, for hating political fiction, nonetheless recorded the end of Macronie, which has taken her into a rough tango since 2017. “There will be no heir to the central bloc, the economic collapse of the country is the last nail in their coffin”she said, planning to have as her main rival, during the next presidential election, “a representative of the New Popular Front”. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this would be the fulfillment of a prophecy formulated in 2012.
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