Manuel Bompard, campaign director of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, invited on Tuesday on franceinfo, called on left-wing voters to vote useful, to vote for the candidate of rebellious France, from the first round of the presidential election. “Any left-wing conscience cannot be insensitive to the fact that we can qualify a left-wing candidate in the 2nd round, that we can drive out the far right from the 1st round”he said.
For him, what is at stake “first of all”it’s “the 1st round match”. The issue is to “to know” if “we prefer” an Emmanuel Macron – Marine Le Pen duel, or Emmanuel Macron – Jean-Luc Mélenchon and “if we want there to be at least one left-wing candidate in the second round?”. According to him, it is now possible and this is what worries Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the National Rally. “We heard for a very long time that the left was eliminated, swept away, that it could not win this presidential election. There, there is an opportunity, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon”estimated Manuel Bompard, while calling for “responsibility” the undecided and those who cried “to the dispersion of the left”.
Fabien Roussel at 4% ➡️ “I regret this situation. The subject is the conscience of each voter, each voter. If we were qualified, we would open a discussion on the left with those who want to govern with us”, reaffirms Manual Bompard. pic.twitter.com/WX56c13RfZ
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“First we qualify and then, in the second round, we bring together all those who want to govern with us”added Manuel Bompard. “But for that, Jean-Luc Mélenchon must be qualified in the second round”, he repeated. His campaign manager thus reiterated the candidate’s intention, if he is in the second round, to open “immediately” a discussion with other left-wing parties, including Fabien Roussel’s Communist Party.
“Everyone has now understood that he will be a candidate until the end”continued Manuel Bompard about the PCF candidate, while ensuring that he did not blame him for recovering votes from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“The subject is no longer the discussion between the candidates, the subject is the conscience of the voters.”
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“I say to the voters of Fabien Roussel, isn’t it more relevant, more effective, today, to qualify Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2nd round when we share and we have in common 95% of its proposals”launched Manuel Bompard.