The first round of the French presidential election delivered its verdict on Sunday, announcing a Macron-Le Pen duel in the second round. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he finished on the third step of the podium, very close to Marine Le Pen (23.41%) with 21.95% of the votes. A result that Ségolène Royal considers “exceptional”, but which also annoys her.
“Jean Luc Mélenchon honored beautiful politics with his campaign and his speech”, wrote the former minister on Twitter, before castigating the results of Yannick Jadot (EELV), Fabien Roussel (Communist Party) and Anne Hidalgo ( PS): “(They are) below 5% and call for the dam to Marine Le Pen? They could do it by the union by withdrawing. Shame on them, on their ego. ‘Dwarves’, would have said François Mitterrand”.
Words that Ségolène Royal reiterated this Monday morning at the microphone of BFMTV. Guest of the morning, she deplored a “dramatic” situation: “These candidates are below 5%, while there was an expectation of the electorate for a union of the left. They were not able (to meet this expectation, editor’s note), because of their ego, their lack of insight”. Jadot, Roussel and Hidalgo “did not have the sense of their duty, that is to say that when one is a candidate in a presidential election for a political current, one is at the service of this history. It is not not the story that is at the service of your little ego. And since they did not understand that, “said Ségolène Royal again.
For her, if the three candidates had withdrawn from the presidential race, Jean-Luc Mélenchon would be in the second round, “and France could benefit from a real debate of substance, choice, values and strategy, in relation to the state of the country”.