MELENCHON. Jean-Luc Mélenchon collected more than 7.6 million votes in the first round of the presidential election. He sketched out a withdrawal from political life, while now the left seems to have to build itself around his training.
10:28 – Reminder – Did Jean-Luc Mélenchon call for Macron to vote in the 2nd round of the 2022 presidential election?
The answer is, as a reminder, no. The candidate La France insoumise who arrived in third position in the first round ballot did not call to vote for Emmanuel Macron. In his speech on Sunday evening, he gave his voting instructions ‘in hollow’, calling instead (and three times) that “not one” of the votes of his supporters should go to the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le pen. But he did not mention the name of the outgoing president.
In addition, Jean-Luc Mélenchon intends, as in 2017, to consult his 320,000 “online citizen sponsors” in order to decide whether to vote Macron or white in the 2nd round. What to fear, for the supporters of Emmanuel Macron, a large abstention of the voters mélenchonnistes, who mobilized during the quinquennium against the policy of the tenant of the Elysée, whether economic, social or health.
10:19 – Ségolène Royal: the PS, EELV and the PCF wanted to “exist” at all costs and it is an “absurdity”
For Ségolène Royal this Monday morning on BFMTV, the three parties that are the PS, EELV and the PCF were wrong to consider that they needed a presidential candidate at all costs “to exist”, it is “an absurdity “in his opinion. If they had withdrawn, and had thereby even allowed Jean-Luc Mélenchon to qualify for the second round, “France could benefit from a real substantive debate”, she concludes.
10:12 – Manuel Bompard regrets the candidacy of Fabien Roussel
MEP Manuel Bompard regrets that the Communist Party “has chosen to have a candidacy”. He recalled, on the set of Bruce Toussaint, on BFMTV, that “the number of votes that Jean-Luc Mélenchon lacks to qualify for the second round, is lower than the number of votes that were achieved by Fabien Roussel. “
10:07 – For former PS candidate Ségolène Royal, neither Hidalgo, nor Jadot, nor Roussel had “the sense of their duty”
Guest of BFMTV this morning, former Socialist Party presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who made it to the second round against Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, considered it “dramatic” that the left failed to reach the second round. “Because of their egos, their lack of insight, the calculation of the third round”, neither Anne Hidalgo (socialist candidate), nor Yannick Jadot (ecologist candidate), nor Fabien Roussel (communist candidate), had ” the sense of their duty”. According to Ségolène Royal, the good attitude would have come back to fade in favor of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came in third position very close to Marine Le Pen.
09:56 – Voting instruction for the 2nd round: Quatennens criticizes a possible “counterproductive effect”
Finally, LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens hammered home France Inter: “The voting instructions today could have a counterproductive effect (…) We led the fight against the National Rally. But I did not since Emmanuel Macron did the same thing because he dreamed of a 2017 remake”.
09:44 – “The vote for the far right is not an option”, confirms Adrien Quatennens
The deputy La France insoumise Adrien Quatennens was also questioned this Monday morning on France Inter on the second round of the presidential election 2022, which will oppose the outgoing president Emmanuel Macron and the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. The close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon repeated that “the vote for the far right is not an option, the people have nothing to gain with a victory for Marine Le Pen”. However, he added: “For the rest, the total responsibility for what will happen in the second round lies with the main protagonist, Emmanuel Macron”, criticizing “the policy carried out with brutality”.
09:38 – Presidential 2022: “A burst of mobilization” of voters for Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore narrowly failed to reach the second round, finishing in the very frustrating place of third. Still on France Inter this Monday, April 11 in the morning, LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens wished to salute “a burst of mobilization” from voters during the last hours of the vote in the first round: “There are women, men, who did not plan not to vote, who came yesterday. There was a burst of mobilization which meant that we went from the last poll at 18% to a score of 22% “.
09:28 – “We missed 500,000 votes, which is next to nothing.” (LFI Deputy Adrien Quatennens)
The deputy La France insoumise Adrien Quatennens spoke on France Inter this Monday morning. “We believed in it, but we understood only in the middle of the night that we would not be able to catch up on this delay” he confided with emotion. And to lament “We missed 500,000 votes, that is to say three times nothing. Yes, we missed the voices of Fabien Roussel, incontestably”.
09:20 – For whom will the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon vote? Macron or Le Pen?
Ifop gave the following figures last night for the LCI news channel on the report of votes in the second round of the presidential election. The voters of Mélenchon would vote thus according to this institute: 33% Macron, 23% Le Pen, 44% abstention; for Elabe, the projections are a little different: according to this institute, 34% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s voters will vote for Emmanuel Macron, 25% for Le Pen and 41% intend to abstain.
01:22 – Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the gates of the second round
END OF LIVE. Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore failed to qualify for the second round of the presidential election. Despite a score of around 22%, the candidate of La France insoumise did not collect enough votes to overtake Marine Le Pen. However, he finished very close to the candidate of the National Rally.
01:05 – Jean-Luc Mélenchon finishes just behind Emmanuel Macron in Lyon
The final results are known in Lyon. Jean-Luc Mélenchon (31.06%) finished second just behind Emmanuel Macron (31.84%). The LFI candidate is only 2,000 votes behind the president-candidate. Marine Le Pen ends at 8.97%.
00:59 – 40.73% for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Montpellier
In Montpellier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 40.73% of the vote according to the final results. He is ahead of Emmanuel Macron (22.45%) and Marine Le Pen (12.43%).
00:58 – Manuel Bompard pessimistic about a reversal of the situation
Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, recognizes that “it’s getting complicated.” The LFI candidate should not overtake Marine Le Pen. According to the Insoumis, their representative should win 38% of the votes on the ballots that remain to be counted and Marine Le Pen less than 10%. The scenario seems unlikely.
00:56 – The results of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the West Indies
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been acclaimed overseas. The LFI candidate was placed in the lead in Guadeloupe (56.16%), Guyana (50.6%), Martinique (42.6%), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (40.9%), La Réunion (40.2%) and Saint-Martin (35%).