PARIS (CN) — Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France’s far-left candidate for the 2027 presidential elections, is gaining strength in the polls despite a hard-line pro-Palestine rhetoric that experts say borders on antisemitic.
“In his analysis of the ‘New France,’ Mélenchon acknowledged — and it is a pertinent analysis — that he has an electorate that has become radicalized since Oct. 7 [2023], and which can bring him many votes through an anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian discourse,” Gilbert Casasus, a prominent political scientist, said. “Everyone observing, myself first and foremost, were surprised by the victories achieved by [Mélenchon’s party France Unbowed]in certain cities.”
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