PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) – Mathilde Panot, president of the group La France insoumise l’Assemble Nationale and lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mlenchon, estimated in the Sunday newspaper that the danger embodied by Marine Le Pen was “no same nature” as that represented by Emmanuel Macron, but without going so far as to give voting instructions for the second round.
Arrived in third position in the first round of the presidential election behind Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mlenchon called on his readers not to give any vote to the far-right candidate, but without going so far as to call for a vote for the outgoing president. as have many other candidates.
An Ipsos poll showed on Saturday that 33% of Jean-Luc Mlenchon’s readers planned to vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron in the second round, 16% in favor of Marine Le Pen, and that 51% remained undecided. The campaign for the second round of April 24 is therefore played on the left, to try to convince those who had set their sights on the candidate of La France insoumise.
“These two dangers are not of the same nature,” declared Mathilde Panot to the JDD. “We understand the immense anger that there is against Emmanuel Macron, but we hope that readers will not be mistaken about the social imposture of Marine Le Pen’s candidacy. In addition to the social abuse of Emmanuel Macron’s politics Macron, it would add racist and anti-Muslim hatred.”
“But we will not call to vote for Emmanuel Macron, who has destroyed our country for five years. It’s Macron to convince,” she added.
The online consultation organized by La France insoumise to collect the intentions of the 7.7 million people who voted for it in the first round ended Saturday at 8 p.m. Jean-Luc Mlenchon invites him to announce his choice between a Macron vote, a blank vote, a null vote or an abstention, and has promised to make the result of the consultation public. (Gilles Guillaume, said by Camille Raynaud)