Jean-Luc Mélenchon places the remainder of the left up in opposition to the wall by establishing himself because the incarnation of the “anti-fascist arc” | EUROtoday

LDid the second spherical of the 2027 presidential election open on February 14, after the loss of life of far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon? A face-to-face assembly that the National Rally (RN) desires of and that Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France insoumise (LFI) theorizes for a number of years, beneath the slogan of “them against us”.

Since the tragedy in Lyon, the far proper, the best and among the Macronists have jumped on the alternative to make the chief of LFI the brand new unfrequented particular person of the Republic, calling for organizing “a common front” in opposition to him. A reversal of the requirements of the Republican barrier which doesn’t displease Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

For two years, he has accelerated his populist transformation, rising the variety of controversies, flirting with anti-Semitic rhetoric on a number of events, and assuming this oratorical brutality in opposition to the media or the judicial establishment. His doubtful and conspiratorial feedback on the pronunciation of the Jewish surname Epstein, Thursday February 26 in Lyon, as soon as once more widened the hole between him and the remainder of the left. François Hollande accused the person he labored with on the PS of getting “ended up falling into anti-Semitic formulas”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his half, put his exit right down to “irony”, accusing his detractors of “deliberately incite violence against LFI”.

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