Left primary: Mélenchon and Hollande satisfied despite a chaotic start

So far so good for them. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande can rub their hands: the primary of the socialist left is happening as they had planned. That is to say in the best of their respective interests. The candidate of La France insoumise can gradually allow his “useful vote” profile to emerge on the left; the former President of the Republic can allow his status as a social-democratic recourse to be built.

Will the first televised debate, on LCI, reverse the course of things? This primary, desired by Olivier Faure's socialist party and accepted by Place publique, Raphaël Glucksmann's party, begins under the worst auspices. A candidate, Philippe Brun, hastily dismissed on the basis of serious accusations but even before the person concerned was informed or consulted, and exchanges of barbs between Ségolène Royal, who attacked, and Glucksmann, who defended himself, who are not at the level of aspirants to the supreme office