Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in Paris on November 17, 2020. – ISA HARSIN / SIPA
Three days after the heated controversy triggered by the remarks of the leader of the Insoumis, linking terrorism and presidential, the deputy Alexis Corbière gives him his support. According to the latter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains “obviously” the best candidate to represent LFI in the 2022 presidential election, he said on Wednesday.
“The fact that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a candidate for the third time is a strength, people know what he thinks, it is not a mushroom born of the last rain”, underlined the deputy LFI of Seine-Saint -Denis in front of the Association of Parliamentary Journalists (AJP).
Jean-Luc Mélenchon leading the polls on the left
“I can see that some would like to take it out of the game (…). He is our candidate, the one who is known to the French “, counting” already two electoral meetings with very significant scores “, 11.1% of the votes cast in 2012 and 19.58% in 2017, continued the lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the polls for the presidential election, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains the one who is largely at the head of all the so-called left-wing candidates, and he is not leading by a point or two, but generally from single to double” , he developed.
“It is also because he walks in front clearly that he sometimes arouses the fury of certain political commentators who often make him carry all the problems by saying” never behind Mélenchon, everything except him “”, according to Alexis Corbière. “Obviously when there is something being said, all of a sudden we see a noise that is being made. We could trace how this noise arises, coming from pharmacies close to what is called the Republican Spring, relayed by certain sectors immediately, with indignation not always sincere, ”said the LFI deputy.
Indignation after the words of the leader of the rebels
“The goal is to evacuate the character, not to evacuate it for his person, but for the program that we carry”, according to him. To “unblock the situation in the presidential election”, by “re-mobilizing very abstentionist sectors, the working-class and working-class circles,” we have to carry out a long-term, long-term campaign and talk to them about their daily life (…) Jean-Luc Mélenchon embodies that, ”considers Alexis Corbière.
The words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon evoking Sunday “a serious incident or a murder” in the last week of the presidential campaign, an event “written in advance”, aroused indignation in the political class. But also among the families of the victims of the Islamist attacks, the leader of the Insoumis citing in particular the killing committed by Mohammed Merah in 2012.