Search Results

“... who opted for the far left in 2002 and voted PS for tactical reasons in 2007 and 2012? Enter Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the second major beneficiary of the PS’s collapse. A member of the secretive Organisation communiste internationaliste, another Trotskyist party, in his twenties, he joined the ascendant PS in the late 1970s. He gradually asserted ...”

“... statements against Muslims from the highest level of the state’. Signatories included Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise; Benoît Hamon, the former leader of the Socialist Party; and David Cormand, national secretary of the Green Party.Under pressure, the signatories soon began to cave in. Yannick Jadot of the Green Party ...”

“... urged the membership to elect Hollande as his successor. Hollande ran and won the ballot against Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the same year he retook the seat in the Assembly that he’d lost to the right a few years earlier. He’d been punished, he reasoned, for neglecting his parliamentary voters in favour of party business.His seat was in ...”

“... vote for four of the five leading candidates within a margin of 0.7 per cent (they underestimated Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for La France insoumise, by 1.5 per cent). After the Leave vote in the UK and Trump’s victory last November, it’s reassuring not to see the pollsters face down in the entrails. A large number of undecided voters made the task harder ...”

“... Socialist in round one, and take the hit.A red deal, between Hamon and the left-of-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, didn’t pan out. Both will now be running for the first round. Mélenchon is standing for La France insoumise (‘unsubdued’ or ‘rebellious’), a left-of-centre alliance which includes the ...”

“... 2014, on the centenary of his assassination on the eve of the First World War, he was honoured by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left populist leader of La France Insoumise, as well as the former president Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen. Louis Aliot, Le Pen’s second-in-command, controversially argued that Jaurès would now vote RN. To call him a ‘great ...”

“... identify with Israel. The outlier is La France insoumise, led by the veteran left-wing orator Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Palestine weighs heavily on LFI’s internationalist conscience, as it did for Corbyn’s Labour Party. Mélenchon’s fortunes peaked in 2022 when he forged a left alliance that ended up with an ...”

“... to vote for Macron in the first round, rather than Benoît Hamon, the winner of the PS primary, or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of La France insoumise (‘France unbowed’), who was previously allied with the Communists but was now taking a more populist line. Even PS voters seemed to follow this advice, condemning their candidate to a humiliating ...”

“... a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 13,000. Marine Le Pen could only dream of filling a hall that big. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leading candidate of the left, held a rally at the same time, also in the Paris suburbs, and attracted an audience a third of the size. There were many more young people – most of them men (and many maskless) – at Zemmour’s ...”

“... must lie between the irrational extremes of a barely dédiabolisée Le Pen and the neo-Jacobin Jean-Luc Mélenchon, both of them ‘populist’ in the vulgar sense that they were happy to traffic in irresponsible policies. Macron’s self-positioning as et de droite et de gauche – like Blair, picking ‘what really works’ and then dignifying it ...”

“... The Parti Socialiste, more divided than ever, came fifth in 2017, and La France Insoumise, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, lost its initial momentum. In the run-up to the European elections in May, opinion polls showed that the French would vote on the basis of national issues, which persuaded Macron to repeat the two gambles he had taken in 2017: that the ...”

“... and works sorting post on a temporary contract. He wears a silver bangle and wants to see Jean-Luc Mélenchon in power. He persuades himself that the only reason he used to beat up his ex-wife is that he’s always been poor.The women characters rant too, about Gérard Depardieu’s tax evasion, about the embarrassment of having a boyfriend ...”

“... supermarket two days after the killings at Charlie Hebdo’s offices. And suddenly there was Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left-wing leader of La France Insoumise, announcing that the identity of the murderer pointed to ‘a problem with the Chechen community’.Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM), deplored Paty’s ...”

“... came onstream as a significant electoral force in 2012. In Spain, Podemos was formed in 2014. Jean-Luc Mélenchon created La France Insoumise in 2016. The timing of this wave makes plain that it is the socio-economic inequalities of neoliberalism, not its weakening of ethno-national boundaries, that has spurred left populism into being. This is a ...”