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The Debate - The Race for the Elysée Is Launched: The Pen-Mélenchon, the Inevitable Duel?

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According to the polls, the electoral dynamics of Jean-Luc Mélenchon could allow him to rise to the second round against Marine Le Pen, the favourite in the first round. Faced with this potential duel, the candidates of the non-melenchonist left to the right LR are multiplying. The PS organizes a primary in October to choose his candidate from among the 5 declared, last in date: the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. Raphaël Glucksmann is …

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According to the polls, the electoral dynamics of Jean-Luc Mélenchon could allow him to rise to the second round against Marine Le Pen, the favourite in the first round. Faced with this potential duel, the candidates of the non-melenchonist left to the right LR are multiplying. The PS organizes a primary in October to choose his candidate from among the 5 declared, last in date: the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. Raphaël Glucksmann is …

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Less than a year before the presidential elections, the polls put Jean-Luc Mélenchon in a position to fight with Édouard Philippe in the second round against Marine Le Pen. But if the leader of LFI can claim the "useful vote" on the left, the projections of the second round reverse the proposal: his qualification would ensure a victory for Madame Le Pen. Edouard Philippe, however, receives better postponements of votes, is not sure to win.

The pressure was on Edouard Philippe, who was opposed to primary school, while Gabriel Attal and Bruno Retailleau were in favour of it, in a context of dispersal of applications.

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journaldunet.com broke the news on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
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