Mélenchon’s “irreconcilable” proposals

Jean-Luc Mélenchon would be, to hear certain former figures of a fallen social-democrat left, the last resort of their school of thought against Emmanuel Macron. Sixteen days before the first round of the presidential election, taking advantage of his recent polling dynamics, the candidate of La France insoumise (LFI) has undoubtedly established himself as the only left-wing candidate able to qualify for the second round. But the hope of this qualification should not hide the absolutely fundamental programmatic differences that remain between the left described as populist, embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the so-called “government” left, for a time represented by the Socialist Party (PS).

Certain economic measures of the program of the candidate of La France insoumi…