While daily polls predict him anchored in 3rd place in the presidential election, between 15 and 17% of voting intentions, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is counting on the useful vote on the left to obtain his qualification in the second round, to the detriment of Marine Le Pen who flies away with up to 23% of voting intentions. The LFI candidate has just received public support from his ex-rival, Christiane Taubira.
Late presidential candidate, the former Minister of Justice had won the much-maligned popular Primary and then had failed to obtain the famous 500 sponsorships necessary to compete. Since then, she has been discreet but has just come out of silence to provide public support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. This Friday, April 8, she said in a press release that she will vote for the candidate of La France Insoumise “to block the road to the extreme right” while “accession to power“is in his eyes”a risk we cannot afford“.
It must be said that Marine Le Pen, who had initially suffered from the candidacy of her competitor Eric Zemmour – who notably rallied her niece Marion Maréchal and executives from the National Rally by her side – seems in the final stretch to siphon off the votes of the former journalist and TV columnist, fell below 10% of voting intentions. What to replay the 2017 match against Emmanuel Macron, still widely in the lead despite a constant drop in the polls?
To eliminate it”from the first round“, “the left-wing candidate in a position to do so is Jean-Luc Mélenchon today. Sunday he will have my vote“, concludes Christiane Taubira. In passing, the media figure of Marriage for all scratches the disunity of the left that she had said she wanted to ward off by presenting herself at the popular Primary. “This electoral scenario was predictable in recent months. All the left knew it. A necessary rally demanded efforts so that the left and ecology were not eliminated in the first round“, she added. Critics against Anne Hidalgo (PS), who stagnates in the depths of the polls, and Yannick Jadot (EELV) hardly higher…
As a reminder, the first round of the presidential election is held on Sunday April 10, 2022.