After the ballot, there was a third time in French politics. It’s like rugby but there are surprises. Legislative elections will be held on June 12 and 19 and Jean Luc Mélenchon, the leader of France Rebellious and third person in the presidential election, has asked the French to “elect me as Prime Minister” to develop a solidarity program. .

how Voting on their representatives of Rebellious France and Popular Unity, until forming a force of 11, 12 or 13 million votes, which deposited it at Matignon Palace.

Now Melenchon is the referee of the second round. With 22 percent of the vote in the first turn, is less than two points to be one of its main characters, when xenophobic populist Marine Le Pen prevailed, who on Wednesday night will debate candidate and president Emmanuel Macron on television.

The presidential elections are next Sunday.

But Macron and Le Pen are suffering in the Ni vote. “Neither in one nor the other” . That’s the position of young French people under the age of 25 who don’t want to get caught up in the binary ballot process and be forced to choose between Macron or Le Pen, when they voted hard for Mélenchona 70 -year -old rebel for them.

The Mélenchonists they prefer a blank vote or no vote. While polls maintain that one third will vote for Macron, another third for Le Pen and the rest will vote blank or evasive.

“Ask me Prime Minister”

Mélenchon asked “don’t give voice to Madame Le Pen or resist”. But he did not call to vote for Emmanuel Macron. “Melancho”, they call him in Marseille where he was elected deputy, was upset because Macron “leaked” that. I got in touch with text messages. According to him, to save someone’s life abroad, not to make agreements .

The leftist leader, who finished third in the first round of the presidential election on April 10, called on a majority of French join France Insumisa and the “Popular Union” during legislative elections.

In an interview on the BFMTV channel on Tuesday night, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on the French to “elect him Prime Minister”.

“I ask the French to elect me as Prime Minister. I ask them to elect me as Prime Minister, to elect the majority of representatives from France Insoumise and the Popular Union. And I call on everyone who wants to join the Popular Union, it is to say, the main part of your program, to accompany us here good fight “he declared.

“I will be the prime minister, not in favor of Monsieur Macron or Madame Le Pen, but because the French chose me“he claims. Although he has already clarified the two candidates They are not the same by nature.

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Soon after, the Bouches-du-Rhône representative declared that he had “no resentment” against leftist candidates who did not join his candidacy during the presidential election. Yes potentially prevented him from advancing to the second round. A message to the communists clearly.

“No resentment”reiterated this former socialist, who was Minister of Higher Education under Lionel Jospin and then left the PS to form his own party, the France Insumisa, which sympathizes with Hugo Chavezthe Kirchnerism, but condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and warns that “it cannot be justified or relativized.” The difference is that Mélenchon was a politician highly cultivated.

“The strategy of the People’s Union is not just an acronym, it is unity based on a program. (…) We must agree on what makes the union possible,” he appreciated.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a deputy elected for Marseille in 2017, however, did not specify whether he intends to stand again for election to the National Assembly. He recalled “that it is not necessary to be a representative to be prime minister”, as is the current premier Jean Castex. If he agrees with Matignon, he promises: “I will sign the law of price freezing“.

“There is a third round. I will sacrifice everything for that purpose. Being 11 million, being 13 million, join the People’s Union ”, he urged.

“I don’t like Madame Le Pen occupy the country and Monsieur Macron remains in power, “he announced.

Asked if he would prefer to be Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon denied this question.

“I don’t want to be the prime minister of Pierre, Paul or Jacques. I want to be prime minister chosen by the Frenchbecause they elected a majority to implement my program ”, he estimated.

Mélenchon’s proposal means it was his intention impose cohabitation in the future to win the presidential election and make the legislative elections third tour of extraordinary elections in France.

Paris, correspondent

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