I agree. In fact, you could say that Mélenchon and le Pen are closer to each other on economic and possibly foreign policy, and very far from Macron. So not unreasonable that some votes would transfer from one to the other. Huge differences on everything else of course (immigration, but also law and order, education, culture, …)
I disagree on Hollande and generally center-left. Hollande had to juggle a very broad coalition as you say. He ended up hated by everyone because his way to handle it was not finding a middle ground, but campaigning as Mélenchon lite and then attempting to govern as Macron lite. Then he tried to dump the responsibility of the turnaround to financial markets and EU. After this, any possibility of a center-left coalition with an actual center-left agenda was dead and buried...
I think the historical socialist party (PS) is in many ways closer to Mélenchon than to Macron. Don’t forget there were actual communists in Mitterrand’s coalition !
I agree on Hollande’s hesitations, but it was that Mélenchon’s lite campaign that brought him to power—and his Macron lite policy was the catalyst to the PS demise as their electors switched en masse to
Mélenchon.
I agree. In fact, you could say that Mélenchon and le Pen are closer to each other on economic and possibly foreign policy, and very far from Macron. So not unreasonable that some votes would transfer from one to the other. Huge differences on everything else of course (immigration, but also law and order, education, culture, …) I disagree on Hollande and generally center-left. Hollande had to juggle a very broad coalition as you say. He ended up hated by everyone because his way to handle it was not finding a middle ground, but campaigning as Mélenchon lite and then attempting to govern as Macron lite. Then he tried to dump the responsibility of the turnaround to financial markets and EU. After this, any possibility of a center-left coalition with an actual center-left agenda was dead and buried...
I think the historical socialist party (PS) is in many ways closer to Mélenchon than to Macron. Don’t forget there were actual communists in Mitterrand’s coalition ! I agree on Hollande’s hesitations, but it was that Mélenchon’s lite campaign that brought him to power—and his Macron lite policy was the catalyst to the PS demise as their electors switched en masse to Mélenchon.