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Not in my name
The debate that tore the left (but also the right) in the 2017 in-between rounds is coming back to the fore: should we call for a blockade of the far right? Five years ago, the Mélenchon camp ended up giving an ambiguous and very controversial instruction: “Not a voice for the National Front.” Today and a month from the second round, the ghosts of the past are resurfacing quite logically because the same duel (Macron-Le Pen) is emerging. In an interview to Parisian, Roussel wants to be “clear”. “I will call to block the far right”, he promises. And tackle: “It’s a big difference that I have on the left, I will never let the far right get their hands on the Republic.” Follow his gaze…
But after five years of Macron in power, who has proven to be more right-handed than left-handed, the question turns out to be a bit…