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PORTRAIT. The LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, elected chairman of the Finance Committee, is an old traveling companion of Mélenchon. Will he settle down?
By Michel Revol (with Thibaut Deleaz)
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HASAmong the Insoumis deputies, Éric Coquerel has at least one visible particularity: he is old. Not too much, certainly, with his 63 years, but in the middle of the Insoumise youth this age gives him a stature a little apart. Coquerel is said to be a kind of sage. Last year, it was he whom Mélenchon had dispatched to the other left-wing parties to try, on the initiative of Yannick Jadot, to unite LFI with the PS and the ecologists for the presidential election. It is also him, the former Trotskyist, who would have suggested to the leader of the Insoumis to seek in the suburbs and working-class neighborhoods the votes which, in 2017, had failed the LFI candidate to reach the second round.
His respectable age does not prevent him from being a seasoned and vindictive fighter. The new president of…
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