Invited on BFMTV, the former finalist of the 2007 presidential election judged that the candidate of La France insoumise was the most “solid” and the most capable of bringing together the left for the presidential election.
Ségolène Royal judges that the useful vote on the left is Mélenchon. For this social democrat and former minister of Mitterrand and Holland, the leader of La France insubordinate to the claimed radicalism is now the most “solid” in his camp. Both also share the awareness of the ecological emergency and the need for a more participatory democracy. Invited this Tuesday evening on BFMTV, the former presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, defeated in the second round by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, estimated that the one who dominates the polls on the left with 11% of the voting intentions was the only one to be able create a rallying dynamic capable of propelling the left to the second round.
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After having deplored the absence of debate between suitors which would have allowed a personality to emerge, judged that the popular primary, with laudable unitary intentions, has arrived “too late”, the former minister of ecology estimated that“Today, the useful vote on the left is the Mélenchon vote. It is he who professionally makes the best campaign, who is rounding off the angles in relation to what could displease him, who is able to answer all the questions, who is structured, who is cultured, who has the experience of a presidential campaign… So he is the most solid”, did she say. Before driving the point home: “If the left wants to be in the second round, the leaders must come together, looking at what unites us and not what divides us, and the useful vote on the left is Jean-Luc Mélenchon.”
For his part Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who generally condemns his ex-comrades from the PS, drinks whey. “I thank Ségolène Royal for the unifying words regarding my candidacy. His merit is all the more respectable because I know that his support is not a rallying. he tweeted in the evening. Way also not to feel too indebted to the gesture of Royal.
Ségolène Royal likes to distill her advice. Since she no longer has her hands in politics on a daily basis, and while the first round of the presidential election is being held in less than two months, the socialist has been speaking out all the way. She never really had her tongue in her pocket. But for the past few weeks, she has willingly posed as a referee above the match and believes, with her experience as a former candidate, that she has experience to pass on. His support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes after distancing himself from Anne Hidalgo, the PS candidate. In December, she urged him to “se to withdraw in favor of one of the two candidates before it. In this case, Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Yannick Jadot. Throughout interviews, Ségolène Royal insists on union. The only way to win according to her. “If the political leaders do not understand that there is an aspiration of left-wing voters to union, it is because they are not living up to their responsibilities”, she declared on the set of France 2 on February 1.
“It is in the interest of the Socialist Party that Hidalgo steps down, because his crash would put parliamentarians at risk. The problem is not even Hidalgo anymore, it is the damage for the future”, she would have declared according to the remarks reported last week by the chained Duck.
Updated at 9:50 p.m. with the reaction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.