Mélenchon, Prime Minister? “He pretends to want to be”, tackles Enthoven

Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron was re-elected as head of the country with 58.5% of the votes cast. A victory which makes him “the worst elected president of the Fifth Republic”, argued Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The truth no longer has any importance” in the eyes of the president of rebellious France, explains the essayist Raphaël Enthoven, guest ofEurope Morning Wednesday. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself was elected deputy with 64% abstention, which means that 20% of registered voters voted for him. How can these people speak of illegitimacy?”

A controversial poster?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already embarked on the legislative elections. With a poster, “Mélenchon, Prime Minister”, unveiled on Tuesday, the leader of rebellious France wishes to bring together the entire left. However, this poster is considered “pathetic” by the philosophy associate. “It’s not just the pathetic poster of a man who knows he won’t be Prime Minister, but who pretends to want to be,” Raphaël Enthoven said.

“It’s a terrible poster because Mélenchon presumes that in the event that the Insoumis, where the Popular Union wins the legislative elections, a highly improbable assumption, he would automatically be appointed Prime Minister. But why Emmanuel Macron would not go not look for a younger one, a Quatennens, a Corbière, even a Ruffin?

With this poster, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to take his revenge, he who came third in the first round of the presidential election, gathering 22% of the vote. A “dangerous” attitude for the essayist. “The certainty that it is he who will be appointed is in itself, I find, more worrying and more dangerous than the desire to believe that he will win the legislative elections after losing the presidential election”, he concluded. .