
Fifteen years after his first attempt, Jean-Luc Mélenchon hopes to follow in the footsteps of François Mitterrand and win the 2027 presidential election, according to his supporters.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already led several presidential campaigns under the banner of La France insoumise.
Sixteen years. This is the time it took François Mitterrand to be elected to the supreme office, between his first attempt in 1965 and his victory in 1981. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has never hidden his admiration for his socialist elder, believes that he will need more or less the same time, fifteen years, to repeat the feat.
According to the Insoumis, this fourth candidacy will finally allow La France insoumise to preside over the destiny of the French. This is what MP Antoine Léaument writes in the simple future of the code on the social network X: “On April 18, 2027, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be in the second round of the presidential election. On May 2, he will be elected President of the Republic.”
A few weeks earlier, it was another LFI parliamentarian who confided to a handful of journalists that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had expressly asked the movement's executives to think about the role he wanted to play in the event of a victory next spring. This elected official is thinking…
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon's fourth candidacy for the 2027 presidential election.
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