Jean-Luc Melenchon “did not put suspicion on the past elections”, said Adrien Quatennens, coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), on franceinfo on Tuesday June 14. The one who is also a deputy from the North was questioned about remarks made the day before by the leader of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), in front of journalists. “We can’t have Banana Republic customs like that in France”launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon, alluding to the results of the legislative elections.
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According to the Ministry of the Interior, Together!, a confederation which supports Emmanuel Macron, came out on top, with just over 21,000 votes ahead of Nupes, which it disputes. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who accuses the Minister of the Interior of “hack”, “It should make you think about what happens next and it raises questions about what happened before. Has this ever been the case in other elections? I have always trusted. And there, oI have a big doubt now”.
For Adrien Quatennens, Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not “never called into question the result of an election”. “What is serious is not that Jean-Luc Mélenchon says to himself, after the tampering that we have seen for more than a week, that possibly there are sometimes doubts.And what is serious is the fact that you have a power that says to itself: fine, we have just taken an electoral defeat, can’t we remove a small handful of feathers here and there? and, by a bonneteau effect, reveal a result which is not the same'”.
“Yes, it’s worrying, continues Adrien Quatennens. We do not do politics with the means of the State on the results of an election. However, “Mélenchon conspiracy, this is not the subject. Bear that we can be outraged by this tampering which, despite the ingenuity of Mr. Darmanin, does not detract from the fact that we have won the legislative elections, in any case we are in the lead in the first round.