Overview
- Mélenchon, in a Sunday interview with La Tribune Dimanche, told other left parties to stop defining themselves against La France insoumise and warned against what he called a self‑defeating anti‑LFI stance.
- He said LFI does not seek to absorb allies and argued that each party should keep its own voice to win support in its base.
- He signaled openness to an "honorable deal" with the ecologists if efforts to stage a primary that excludes him fail.
- Socialists still resist working with him, and reports note that a non‑Mélenchon primary now looks less likely to happen.
- He pointed to past alliances that boosted seats in 2022 and 2024, as a new poll cited by La Tribune says 70% view him as a handicap, and he countered that such surveys mislead the left and help rivals.