Leader of the far-left La France Insoumise party Jean-Luc Mélenchon has thrown his hat in the ring for the election to succeed term-limmited President Emmanuel Macron, pitching himself as the candidate of the multicultural “New France”.
Mélenchon, who is often compared to fellow septuagenarian socialist firebrands Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, will make his fourth run at the Élysée Palace after falling short in the 2022, 2017, and 2022 races, all of which he failed to advance to the second round. However, his strong 3rd-place finish in 2022 — behind National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and French President Emmanuel Macron — catapulted his…
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