Pass of arms between Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Emmanuel Macron takes advantage of his departure for eastern Europe to respond on the national ground to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He is trying to convince voters to give him a solid majority in the second round of legislative elections. “We are at the time of choices and the big choices are never made by abstention. I therefore appeal to your common sense and to the Republican start. Neither abstention, nor confusion, but clarification. Sunday I am counting on you to provide our country with a solid majority, in order to face all the challenges of the time”, he said. The reaction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon was not long in coming: “His boat is sinking, Macron is flying. Some say he is fleeing, in reality he despises us. For him the legislative elections are just an administrative formality, so he has gone to stand out on the front line “.

Five days before the second round of the legislative elections, the tone of the remote duel between Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon is seriously hardening. “Emmanuel Macron descended unexpectedly into the arena in a setting that owes nothing to chance. He is the Macron warlord, solemn. He wants to show that he is managing the war in Ukraine but also the economic consequences in France. Today he dramatizes the issue of the second round because the risk of not having a majority in the Assembly is very real “, explains Catherine Demangeat, political journalist at franceinfo. As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he responds on the same line according to her: “During his speech in Toulouse, the president of the rebellious attacked the head of state, comparing him to Donald Trump. The two are trying to mobilize their camps and the abstainers”.