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Roses and Greens try to resist the little music of the useful vote sung by the rebellious. According to them, Mélenchon would not win in the second round and would not tilt Macron to the left.
Usefulness is only useful, Forrest Gump could almost say. But where is the use for the left in this first round of the presidential election? To counter the idea that the useful vote would be on the side of Mélenchon, whose meager dynamics still make him cherish the hope of being in the second round, the Socialists counterattack. “Mélenchon is a dead end. It is undoubtedly the least useful left in the world.rebuked Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday at a meeting in Limoges, alongside a François Hollande going in the same direction: “The voters would have no choice but to vote in the name of the stability embodied by my successor, whose project is that of my predecessor, or to rally to an approach lost in advance which we are told is useful but which deprive us of our allies?
“Populist strategy”
National secretary of the PS and spokesperson for the candidate, Sébastien Vincini assures us that “Mélenchon will not be there [au second tour]». “It’s as if he were calling for a futile vote”he adds, considering that the victory of Emmanuel Macron being almost recorded, “the French do not consider this vote useful”. Even beyond the issues of “Lilliputians” from the left. “Normally, the presidential is a period with euphoric projects… There…”breathes Vinc…