VIDEO. In 2002, when the record number of candidates on the left was playing tricks… on the left

This is a record in the history of the 5th Republic: in 2002, 16 candidates took part in the race for the Elysée. In particular, there were all the representatives of the plural left: Lionel Jospin for the Socialist Party, Noël Mamère for the Greens, and the communist Robert Hue, the radical leftist Christiane Taubira, Jean-Pierre Chevènement… This record number of candidates would have he played tricks and would he have caused their defeat? Small anthology of what the main interested parties thought of it at the time.