MELENCHON. The result of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of this presidential election is eagerly awaited by his supporters, who hope that the LFI candidate will qualify for the second round this evening. A few trends are apparent with the turnout figures. Live news.
14:48 – What score did Jean-Luc Mélenchon get in 2017?
For the 2017 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had scored much higher than five years earlier. However, he had, again, been ranked only in fourth position, despite 19.58% of the vote. The candidate of La France insoumise had collected 7,059,951 votes, finishing just behind François Fillon (20.01%) and Marine Le Pen (21.30%). For a long time Jean-Luc Mélenchon dwelled on missing out on the second round because of the 600,000 votes missing.
14:34 – Jean-Luc Mélenchon voted in Marseille
Jean-Luc Mélenchon obviously went to the polls to vote in the presidential election. The candidate of “La France Insoumise” voted this morning in Marseille in the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône where he is a deputy in 2017.
13:45 – What score did Jean-Luc Mélenchon get in 2012?
When he presented himself for the first time in the presidential election in 2012, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had arrived in fourth position. A candidate with the label of the Left Party, the former socialist won 11.10% of the votes cast, representing 11.10% of the ballots. He had arrived behind Marine Le Pen (17.90%) and ahead of François Bayrou (9.13%).
12:39 – Third and last campaign for Jean-Luc Mélenchon
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this third campaign for the presidential election is the last. At 70, the leader of La France insoumise will not return in 2027, whether he is beaten in the 2022 ballot or appears with the presidential costume for the next five years. The question of a candidacy in the case of the second option is de facto ruled out, the deputy having announced that if he becomes head of state, he would only serve a single term. Regarding the first scenario, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had announced in November that he would no longer aspire to run for the Elysée. But “I will continue to have a political action”, he confided to 20 Minutes .
11:38 – Several large meetings organized by Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon organized several major political rallies during his election campaign. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône had notably gone to Marseille where he had held an open-air meeting on the beach of Prado, at the end of March, having brought together around 30,000 people, a week after having organized a large march in Paris , between Place de la Bastille and Place de la République, which brought together, according to its teams, around 100,000 people. Its multi-meetings at the end of the campaign with its physical presence in Lille and in 11 other cities thanks to its hologram was also one of the big events of this campaign.
10:43 – What immigration policy does Jean-Luc Mélenchon want to put in place?
On the ground of immigration, a subject widely discussed during the electoral campaign, Jean-Luc Mélenchon opposes the visions of the right and the far right. It proposes to repeal the “Asylum and immigration” law, in order to guarantee the right of asylum, and wishes to take care of migrants thanks to reception and accommodation structures in sufficient numbers throughout the territory, without quantifying its ambition.
09:21 – Measures for equality between men and women
Committed to the issue of equality between men and women, Jean-Luc Mélenchon made several proposals on various subjects that relate to the theme. First on work, where he promises to increase financial and criminal penalties against companies that do not respect equal pay while fighting against forced part-time work which affects 80% of women. The LFI candidate also wants to impose parity in any institution whatsoever.
Regarding women’s rights, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to strengthen family planning, open up full adoption to all couples, married or PACS, and extend and make the duration of parental leave the same. On the subject of violence against women, the candidate wants to pass a law against sexism and violence against women, without specifying the content, and initiate a plan of one billion euros to fight against this violence.
08:33 – What transport policy for Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
In terms of transport, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has made a commitment to renationalise the motorways, but also to lower the prices charged by operators. Refusing the abolition of train lines and campaigning to reopen some, he opposes competition between these transport lines. A network that he intends to densify in urban areas while developing, at the same time, the use of bicycles.
07:14 – With Jean-Luc Mélenchon, finished nuclear, make way for 100% renewables
This is one of the debates of this presidential campaign: what energy should be used for the years to come? Jean-Luc Mélenchon announces that he intends to plan the exit from nuclear power and abandon any project for a new power plant to, at the same time, provide for a 100% switch to renewable energies, in particular with the help of a public pole of the energy he wishes to create. No more subsidies for fossil fuels, the candidate wants to invest in energy efficiency and sobriety, while supporting workers forced to change the energy sector.
06:34 – 100% reimbursed care promises Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Beyond his plan for hospitals, Jean-Luc Mélenchon intends to develop and facilitate access to care by making the commitment to “reimburse 100% of the care prescribed by social security by integrating mutual health insurance .” To ensure a permanent supply of medicines, anyone who intends to repeal the laws on the state of health emergency as well as the sanitary passproposes to create a public drug center which fights against the shortage of drugs and relocates production.
05:28 – What does Jean-Luc Mélenchon offer for the hospital?
After a pandemic which highlighted the lack of resources of hospitals in France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon promises to stop the spiral by recruiting caregivers, all upgraded, and by reopening beds, as well as emergency services, maternities or nursing homes “less than thirty minutes from each Frenchman” he undertakes. At the same time, he pleads for the opening of health centers.
05:25 – Many calls to vote in favor of Mélenchon
Since the “Great March” organized at the end of March in Paris, calls for a vote in favor of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have multiplied. On April 4, a platform was notably signed by 2,000 personalities anxious to include subjects such as “retirement at 60, the minimum wage at 1,400 euros, ecological planning and the end of sexual violence” on the political agenda. . Among the signatories, several cultural actors. The former Minister of Justice and ex-candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Christiane Taubira, also spoke out for the LFI candidate, as did Gérard Filoche, ex-socialist.
It is at 8 p.m. that the first estimates on the result of the 1st presidential round will be given. Initially, it will be necessary to be satisfied with estimates established by polling institutes, which should however be rather solid. But the Ministry of the Interior will also provide Linternaute.com with all the partial results, consolidated over the course of the evening. The result of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, like those of the 11 other candidates, will thus be updated throughout the evening in our great live dedicated to this presidential election 2022, with all the figures available at the national level and for the major cities of France.
For weeks or even months, polls of voting intentions were almost daily. And Jean-Luc Mélenchon gradually climbed to third place with progress in the very last days of the campaign. But the results of the polls must be interpreted as an indication of the state of the balance of power at a given moment, like a snapshot of opinion. In no case do they constitute a predictive element of the results on the day of the vote. During the blackout period imposed on the media on Saturday and Sunday, until the results of the first round, it is forbidden to give information on the latest trends. Find below our article published this Friday with the compilation of the polls.
Compared to 2017, several proposals return to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program, such as the increase in the Smic or the creation of a Sixth Republic. The project of the candidate of France Insoumise was “co-written by thousands of citizens, it was chosen by seven million voters in 2017 and has been updated to take into account three years of social mobilizations and parliamentary work” , is it indicated on the campaign site of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, where it is also possible to find all the proposals made so far.