The left puzzle style
One year before the presidential election, the left, historically low in opinion, is completely fragmented. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, already a presidential candidate three times, will be a fourth time again. His movement, La France insoumise, emerged strengthened from the sequence of municipal elections to the extent that it won cities (Saint-Denis, Roubaix, etc.), and where it enabled victories for the left thanks to second round agreements, in Nantes in particular. His goal is that once again, as in 2017 and 2022, he appears as the useful vote on the left, leaving the other left-wing parties far behind him.
On the other side of the left spectrum, François Hollande and Bernard Cazeneuve take less and less trouble to hide their Elysee ambitions. They are betting on the degraded image of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which arouses rejection among some left-wing voters and on their experience, as opposed to personalities like Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure or Boris Vallaud, potential candidates.
“I am preparing”, affirms the former president to our colleagues at Marianne this week, explaining that it’s his way of being “useful” today. “I am ready and determined,” echoed this Saturday by his former Prime Minister during a meeting of his party, The Convention.
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