“Jean-Luc Mélenchon methodically organizes his face-to-face with the far right in view of the 2027 presidential election” | EUROtoday

Lhe struggle towards the acute proper was the final struggle which cemented the left and transcended the variations which have continued to widen in recent times between La France insoumise and its companions. What occurred on Thursday, February 12 in Lyon, the beating to demise of Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old nationalist activist by a number of people together with members of the Young Guard, a small ultra-left group based by the Mélenchonist deputy for Vaucluse, Raphaël Arnault, dealt the blow to this final hyperlink. Not solely did Jean-Luc Mélenchon delay in displaying his emotion, however he refused to interrupt with the Young Guard implicitly condoning murderous violence for which he tried to position accountability on others. “It’s us who are being attacked”, he continued to proclaim, as soon as once more attaining the feat of uniting his devoted within the posture of the attacked aggressor.

Day after day, methodically, the chief of LFI tries to prepare his face-to-face with the far proper with a view to the presidential election of 2027. Not solely is the union of the left not an choice for him, however the destruction of the whole lot that would come between him and Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella within the subsequent fourteen months has change into his precedence. It issues little to him that over the previous two years the intensification of its excesses has led to LFI being judged extra harmful for democracy than the National Rally (annual Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey for The Worldon French fractures revealed in August 2024), hampering his possibilities of profitable the following election, the necessary factor for him is to embody resistance to the far proper.

The “citizen revolution” that he requires with out having been, up to now, in a position to provoke it entails a virile confrontation on the street with “the fascists”. Hence the decision from these near him to “popular self-defense”one other method of legitimizing violence whereas formally condemning it. From a former member of the Socialist Party (PS), blissful in admiration of François Mitterrand who had managed to carry the left to energy by neutralizing the power of the French Communist Party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has change into the helpful fool of the far proper.

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