This is the third time, after 2012 and 2017, that Jean-Luc Mélenchon introduces himself to the presidential election and it is not really a surprise. Jean-Luc Mélenchon propose
this Sunday evening its candidacy but conditions it to the collection of 150,000 sponsorships on its program. He confirmed it this Sunday evening on the television news of TF1.
@JLMelenchon announces his candidacy for the #presidentielle2022 :
“When everything is bad, you have to turn on a light. My intention is to deconfin the spirits. I am ready and I propose my candidacy but I ask for a popular nomination”.
#20H d’@ACCoudray @ TF1 @LCI. pic.twitter.com/gZHdO0XT4L
– TF1LeJT (@ TF1LeJT) November 8, 2020
Jean-Luc Mélenchon claims to have asked the question within his movement, and no candidate has declared himself against him, not even François Ruffin to whom we attributed ambitions.
The French in “the dark night”
When everything is going badly and it seems like a dark night for a lot of people who do not find their account in the brutality of this society, we have to turn on a light so that we say to ourselves’ there is an end to the tunnel, we can doing otherwise
, he also said. Jean-Luc Mélenchon further considered that the government had learned no lesson
of the previous containment implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus and that the second wave of the epidemic was announced strict
. It’s a mess, because the inconsistency of orders and counter-orders has resulted in people having the impression that, whether or not the instructions are followed, it is not a big deal.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the second candidate declared for 2022 after the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen.
A platform to support it
To support this application, Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched a platform called “We are for”. Why 150,000 citizen sponsorships? Does he explain? “In fact, I have already proposed it in a bill tabled in the National Assembly. The idea is to give people simply registered on the electoral roll the power to sponsor a presidential candidate. Today, this power is reserved only for 500 elected officials. “
The movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon – already a two-time presidential candidate, in 2012 and 2017 – suffered setbacks in the last European and municipal elections, which allowed Europe Ecologie les Verts (EELV) to challenge him for leadership on the left . During the last presidential election, in 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained 19.6% of the votes cast and finished fourth in the ballot behind Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and François Fillon.
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