It’s a bit of a story within a story, matryoshka style, these nesting dolls. The criticisms that rain down, more particularly on the left, on Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused of indulgence with regard to Russia, even of complacency. Since this weekend, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo have not had enough harsh words for the one who is leading the race in the polls on the left. The mayor of Paris denounces his “allegedly left-wing anti-European discourse”assimilates him to Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen, who “become accomplices aggressive nationalists and imperialists.“ Before continuing: “The left is never on the side of dictators.“
It’s been a few days that Yannick Jadot revolved around these same criticisms. Before the Russian offensive, he maintained, for example, that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was “ready to sacrifice Ukraine and the Ukrainians in an anti-American delirium“. Since then, there has been the invasion of Ukraine, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s interview on franceinfo, Friday morning, during which the Insoumis mocked Jadot’s idea of sending weapons to Kiev Environmentalists are not “never late for something stupid” for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Response from the shepherd to the shepherdess: “Mélenchon is never late with a complacency vis-à-vis Poutine“The two camps have been engaged in a battle since fierce by media and social networks, which definitively buries the idea of a common candidacy, for those who still believed in it. Size reinforcement, Jean-Luc Mélenchon side: Ségolène Royal, ex-presidential candidate, who judges appalling “green and PS candidates” who seek tofalsely disqualify.”
Many political calculations are also hidden: in the criticisms of each other, there is also, and this is the game of electoral campaigns, a little caricature of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. What the Insoumis qualifies, annoyed, as small “politics“. From the beginning of the crisis, part of the left saw in the renewed tension in the East the opportunity to hang Mélenchon on his international program, perceived as his weak point, to prevent him from “killing the match” as they say, to grab too many points in the polls that would put him beyond the reach of his rivals. “As long as Mélenchon does not go up to 13-15, the match is still open”, confidence of an environmentalist executive to our colleagues from L’Opinion.
The one that won’t happen. Saturday was scheduled for the first public meeting of candidate Emmanuel Macron. The Parc Chanot in Marseille had been rented by La République En Marche. Meeting canceled because “no one imagines an expression of fervor on Saturday due to the international context“according to an explanation provided by the party.
It is that of Antoine Wachter: “My career in this presidential election ends there“, writes the ex-candidate of the Greens for the 1988 presidential election, current co-president of the Independent Ecologist Movement. He had only received four sponsorships, out of the 500 required by the Constitutional Council.