“We want to challenge Édouard Philippe”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a meeting in Le Havre on December 5 with a view to the presidential election

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, LFI candidate for the 2027 presidential election, will hold a meeting on Sunday December 5 in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), city of his rival Édouard Philippe, La France insoumise announced to AFP on Thursday. This will be Jean-Luc Mélenchon's third major meeting of the fall, after that in Clermont-Ferrand on Sunday October 11 and the great rebellious "convention" at Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) on November 7, during which LFI will unveil its program.

Each of its meetings aims to respond to an adversary of La France insoumise: that of Clermont will be held the day after a meeting of Gabriel Attal in Lyon, and the “convention” is organized two weeks after the congress of the National Rally in Orléans.

“Our adversaries are the macronie and the extreme right”

As for the Le Havre meeting, it is held in a historic stronghold of communism, but above all in the city of Édouard Philippe, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's main competitor for accession to the second round according to the polls.

“In this campaign, our adversaries are the macronie and the extreme right,” LFI national coordinator Manuel Bompard told AFP. “We want to challenge Édouard Philippe with this meeting in the city where he is mayor,” he adds. During the 2022 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had a very good score in Le Havre, gathering 30.17% of the votes in the first round.