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CHRONIC. The leader of La France insoumise has himself taken charge of the destiny of left-wing parties in view of the legislative elections. And takes its revenge on the Socialist Party.
By Michele Cotta
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Qhat must he be happy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon! What happiness he must feel at the idea that the entire left today comes to kiss his hand! What revenge for those social democrats reduced to following him or disappearing! Now this former Trotskyist, member of the Socialist Party in 1976, became a Socialist senator at the age of 35, one of the youngest members of the Luxembourg Palace – with the agreement and benevolence of François Mitterrand –, is in turn the one who, in his way and around him, the unity of the left.
All the same, he has a form of political genius, this Mélenchon, a genius that François Mitterrand had no doubt sniffed out before anyone else. Not only because it is largely around his true talent as a speaker that he has built…
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