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Health vote
After the “effective voting”, LFI invents the vote “wholesome”. Invited on France 2 this morning, the deputy LFI Adrien Quatennens proposed an argument for the less original in favor of Mélenchon. “Just the qualification in the second round of Jean-Luc Mélenchon would bring real healthiness to the debate”, he advanced. And to specify: “We would then have a real confrontation of ideas between Mr. Macron and Mr. Mélenchon and something other than far-right obsessions.” Something to reassure the soc-dém rather frightened by the radicalism of LFI. Understand: vote Mélenchon, he won’t win, but at least the left will be heard. Quatennens also wants to convince Sunday abstainers not to stay on their sofa on election day. Mobilizing those resigned by ideas, here is a great project.
Double agent
The Gabriel Attal case begins to question the opposition. The former socialist is still a government spokesman, but lately we have seen him behave more like a spokesperson for a presidential candidate. This was particularly seen on Thursday when, on RTL, …