Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We are the most numerous, the most organized, the most coherent” – Liberation

InterviewArticle reserved for subscribersMélenchon presidential candidate 2022dossierFive days before the first round of the presidential election, the candidate of the Popular Union, who hopes more than ever to embody the bulwark of the far right to confront Emmanuel Macron, looks back on his campaign and his delicate position of non-aligned. Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be everywhere Tuesday evening. It’s the day of holograms, in twelve cities simultaneously. The candidate for the presidency of the Republic dreams of a second round. All opinion polls rank him on the third step of the podium behind the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen. Will the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône remain at the door of the final as in 2017? He promises the world that his qualification would give another face to the country. “We can discuss the real life of the French,” he said. Sunday, in the cold Toulouse for his last big outdoor meeting in the countryside, Jean-Luc Mélenchon took a look at the past. He returned for a moment to his departure from the Socialist Party, in 2008, to highlight all…