This weekend, with activists in an internet chat room, Jean-Luc Melenchon abstract: “We are only 285 seats short of the 289 and, with 406 second rounds, it is clearly playable!” His voice is cheerful, motivated as on the eve of a presidential election. He mocks those who deem him incapable of accessing the “Prime”. Mélenchon likes this word from French-speaking Africa to qualify the office of prime minister. In a playful tone, he jokes about Emmanuel Macron, who left for kyiv on Thursday. “The guy, he ran away two days before such a decisive election! In fact, he was thinking of a formality, so he had planned his visit for a long time. Bad luck for them, they fell on us…”
In the courtyard of a school of the 5e constituency of Paris, which he should win, the national secretary of ecologists, Julien Bayou, is also ironic. “Dear members of the government, stay hydrated, drink fresh, we are coming!Above all, do not give the impression that the clear hostility of their opponents can affect them. On Friday, next to Mélenchon for a final heatwave-themed campaign shot, Bayou said the goal: “Faced with insults, we want to give an image of calm, coherence, lucidity…»
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