MELENCHON. Raised in the polls, Jean-Luc Mélenchon hopes to come and play the spoilsports of the 2022 presidential election. Six days before the first round, the LFI candidate still wants to believe in it.
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- Jean-Luc Mélenchon threw his last strength into battle. While the first round of the presidential election will take place this Sunday, April 10, 2022, the LFI candidate is trying to surf on his probing dynamics to shake up the duel announced between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
- According to the latest Opinion Way survey for CNews published this Monday, April 4, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is given in third position with 14% of the vote, far behind Marine Le Pen, second with 22%.
- In an interview with France Blue Occitania this Monday, Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, wants to convince the undecided, the key to the ballot according to his words: “I am thinking in particular of young people, of the working classes who often hesitate to go and vote. There, we has an opportunity to ensure there is a leftist candidate in the second round.”
- Sunday April 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon gave a big meeting in place of the capitol of Toulouse. The opportunity to recall the failures of the outgoing president and to present the social measures that he intends to implement at the Élysée: price blocking, Smic at 1400 euros or even retirement at 60 years old.
- All the main news from the presidential campaign, as well as the latest polls, can be found in our article dedicated to the national election.
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11:24 – LFI wants to mobilize the undecided
In an interview given to France Blue Occitania this Monday March 4, 2022, Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, estimated that “many people have not yet made their choice. […] We will try to convince them in the home stretch, convince them that the program The future in common carried by Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the one we need”, praising the proposals of his candidate as “the most serious answers” with the blocking of certain prices, the rise in the Smic to 1400 euros or even the return of retirement at 60 years old.
11:19 – Latest poll: 14% of voting intentions for Jean-Luc Mélenchon
The latest poll, produced by Opinion Way and published on Monday April 4, credits Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 14% of the voting intentions for the first round of the 2022 presidential election. The candidate of La France insoumise would thus obtain third place in the first round, ahead of Eric Zemmour and Valerie Pécresse. Even if this would be the best score of the left, the candidate would not manage to climb to the second round.
The representative of La France insoumise, who wishes to repeat his good campaign of 2017, still intends to establish himself as the left-wing personality capable of carrying a dynamic, and this involves measuring opinion on his proposals. Nevertheless, while no declared candidate on the left – Anne Hidalgo for the Socialist Party, Yannick Jadot for Europe Écologie-Les Verts and Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate – wishes to give up the race for the Élysée, in the current state things, it is on the right that the match for a second round qualification for the presidential election seems to be taking place.
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Invited to the 8 p.m. news from TF1 on Sunday November 8, 2020, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had announced his candidacy, then submitted to a popular nomination of at least 150,000 signatures in his favor, which he obtained quite easily. “Today, only 500 elected officials can. I support the idea that citizens can invest a candidate” he justified. He still has to obtain the sponsorship of 500 local elected officials.
The large number of left-wing candidates in the presidential race prevents Jean-Luc Mélenchon from breaking through in the polls. All the barometers all the same agree that the Insoumis is the left-wing candidate collecting the most voting intentions with scores between 9 and 11%. Find here the latest polls compiled by the Context media.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon began in politics by actively campaigning within student unions and then in 1977, by joining the Socialist Party. In 1983, he became involved in local politics, elected municipal councilor of Massy then general councilor of Essonne. Senator for Essonne in 1986, he was re-elected in office until 2010. In 1989, he served as deputy mayor of the town of Massy. Vice-president of the General Council of Essonne in 1998, he was appointed Minister Delegate for Vocational Education two years later. From 2009 to 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was MEP for the South-West constituency and co-president of the national office of the Left Party. Since June 2017, he has been elected to the National Assembly, deputy for the 4th district of Bouches-du-Rhône and president of the LFI group.
Figure of the left of the PS for years, Jean-Luc Mélenchon slams the door of the party in 2008, after the deleterious congress of Reims. Founder, president then co-president of the national office of the Left Party in 2000, he was elected MEP in the South-West constituency the same year. He tried for a while to rally the Communist Party around him under the name “Left Front”, which would allow him to be a presidential candidate in 2012, but he finished fourth at the end of the first round, totaling 11, 10% of the votes, behind François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen. After his failure, he failed to be elected deputy in the legislative elections. Jean-Luc Mélenchon awaits the new European elections to finally be victorious. He was re-elected on May 25, 2014 to the European Parliament.
The gradual failure of his rapprochement with the PCF led Jean-Luc Mélenchon to launch, in 2016, the movement La France insoumise (LFI) of which he is now the main incarnation. During the 2017 presidential elections, he achieved a record score, with more than 19% of voters. With this new support, Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône in the following legislative elections. Until his third presidential candidacy in 2022, he chaired the LFI group in the National Assembly.