“It is time for the electoral campaign to be rid of these unfair practices,” said Manuel Bompard, campaign manager for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The Insoumis firmly asked Tuesday, January 18 in the evening of the organizers of the “popular primary“to no longer involve their candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denouncing an approach”insincerewhich, they say, “instrumentalizes aspirations to unityfrom the left. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon has never agreed to appear in this ballot: we therefore ask that his name be removed from all physical and digital media.of this primary, wrote Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a press release. For the Insoumis, this approach is “patently problematic and insincere“.
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Candidates put to the vote without their consent
Manuel Bompard denouncesthe deliberately brutal nature of this initiative, without respect for the people involved in this presidential election. Thus, the candidates will be put to the vote without their agreement. Others won’t be there, without their opinions either“, he writes.
For the rebellious,this vote is therefore similar to a kind of poll without any of the basic rules to guarantee its sincerity being respected“. “It’s not acceptable. None of us had access to the voters file and the control commission set up was dissolved by the organizers.“, he says.
For him, “it is time for the electoral campaign to be rid of these unfair practices which instrumentalize aspirations for unity and have functioned for weeks as a permanent harassment against the legitimacy of left-wing candidates“.
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Which, for Manuel Bompard, raises questions “on the real political intentions of this organization“with which the Insoumis want to “put away clearly“.
The “popular primary“She claimed on Tuesday to have crossed the bar of 288,000 registered to vote for”inaugurationwhich will take place from January 27 to 30 to designate the candidate she will support from among seven personalities.
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This figure is already the largest of the primaries that have taken place, exceeding the environmentalist primary in September (122,000) and the Republican Congress in early December (nearly 140,000).
But in addition to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Yannick Jadot and the socialist Anne Hidalgo refused to participate. Former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira – declared a presidential candidate on Saturday – MEP Pierre Larrouturou and candidates from civil society, Charlotte Marchandise and Anna Agueb-Porterie, meanwhile said they would comply with the results.
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