Jean Luc-Mélenchon responded to his left-wing partners who do not want to see him be appointed to Matignon in the event of a victory for the New Popular Front in the legislative elections.
“It’s totally underperforming.” While several left-wing figures opposed the appointment of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Matignon in the event of a victory for the New Popular Front in the legislative elections, the rebellious leader deemed their position “very clumsy”.
“I deplore being put on the bench of a left for which I have some responsibilities in its return to the scene,” he explained on M6 this Thursday, June 27.
“Mr Faure, like Mr Roussel, is making a serious mistake if they believe that they are going to win votes that they are going to take from the right and the extreme right by attacking me,” continued the three-time presidential candidate.
“A big mistake”
“What they risk is discouraging people who vote Insoumis from voting for them,” added Jean-Luc Mélenchon, assuring that “people think it’s a good idea” for him to become Prime Minister.
According to the leader of LFI, the choice of head of government will fall to the majority group in the National Assembly. “Naturally, it is we who will propose a Prime Minister if we are the most numerous,” he said.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon “is not the leader of the New Popular Front and he will not be Prime Minister”, the head of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier told AFP on Monday, calling for a candidate to be found by “consensus among the different political forces”.
