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From outside the National Assembly, Jean-Luc Mélenchon always tries to shape and feed into strategies the Nupes, which he founded. In the hemicycle, he gave birth to a political generation. This will haveshe one day vocation to emancipate herself from her leader?
After his defeat in the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon ended his speech in looking like he wanted to let go. But the alliance of the left that he brought to the legislative elections, the Nudesput him back in the saddle when he had chosen not to represent himself as a deputy. He doesn’t seem to want to turn the page anymore. A former socialist deputy declares: “It’s complicated for him to understand that he lost. He has taken on such an important role in the last few weeks.”
A relative defends him by saying that he is central to La France insoumise. Recently, he even gave a tour of the National Assembly to the new Insoumis deputies. In the photo, he is always in the center. At 70, after three presidential campaigns and a long political career, some on the left do not imagine him as a candidate in 2027 to succeed Emmanuel Macron because it would not be sufficiently unifying. Jean-Luc Mélenchon continues to maintain the vagueness on the continuation.