Third man in the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched Wednesday the consultation of his 310,000 supporters for the second round.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Wednesday launched the consultation of his 310,000 supporters for the second round, three days after the third man (21.95%) called not to “give a single voice to Le Pen”. This Marine Le Pen voting option is therefore not among the proposals given in consultation on Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s militant platform, “Popular Action”. The more than 310,000 people who sponsored his candidacy online have access to it.
The consultation, the results of which will be public, ends on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. It is preceded by a word from the ex-candidate to his supporters: the second round “will be resolved in defiance of our most fundamental repulsions. A presidency without moral authority will come out of it”, confides the tribune.
The two finalists “are not equivalent”
But, he adds, the two finalists “are not equivalent. Marine Le Pen adds to the project of social mistreatment that she shares with Emmanuel Macron a dangerous ferment of ethnic and religious exclusion”. “That’s why I said and I repeat that not a voice should go to the far-right candidate,” writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“That seems to me to be sufficient public notice. (…) To go beyond would be to abuse the trust you have given me,” he said.
“Whatever the result, it should not be interpreted as an instruction given to anyone”
L’Insoumis specifies: “Whatever the result, it should not be interpreted as an instruction given to anyone, neither between us nor for those who listen to us and trust us. It will indicate what our assessments are in their diversity. Jean-Luc Mélenchon explains why he is doing this, while his voters are divided on the second round vote, according to some studies: “Let’s not give this duo the gain of opposing us over them when we are so strongly united on our projects. The cohesion of the Union Populaire is our dearest asset.”
He had already consulted his supporters in 2017, when he finished fourth with 19.58% of the vote, with the same exception: “Not a voice on the far right”.
The consultation had resulted in a short majority for the blank or null vote (36%), just ahead of the vote for Emmanuel Macron (nearly 35%), just under a third remaining speaking for abstention.