7:40 a.m .: Jean-Luc Mélenchon defends his desire to presidentialize the legislative elections
In an interview to be published today in L’Humanité, the LFI chief responds to those who criticize his approach that their reproach is valid if the president is elected “fairly with a real choice”. “But this is the third time that we have made the coup in the country of forced voting” against the far right, he believes.
According to him, presidentializing the legislative elections means “elevating an election considered as an administrative formality to the rank of an issue at the level of the presidential election. It’s already a bit of the Sixth Republic in the V”. On the other hand, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is betting that there will be “no bonus for the president so badly elected”.