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Jean-Luc Mélenchon salutes the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democrat primary.
POLITICS – A little victory to the taste of tomorrows that sing? By winning largely in the Democratic primary for the town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani has foiled all the polls. No one saw him out victorious in the face of the former state governor, the very moderate (but much better known) Andrew Cuomo.
On a very on the left line, Zohran Mamdani denounced during his campaign “The current genocide in Gaza” And prevailed against the accusations of anti -Semitism which he was the subject. The 33 -year -old man, who defines himself as “Progressive and Muslim”is part of a socialist organization. Rare in the United States. It is supported by very identified figures as Senator Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and has campaigned essentially against expensive life and for the taxation of high incomes.
What earned him, on the other side of the Atlantic, the praises of the executives of rebellious France. “Zohran Mamdani made a score much superior to the forecasts of the polls. He won in front of a laying of “center-left” supported by the local leaders of the Democratic Party Triper “estimates Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The parallel with the French political situation is obvious. How not to see that the ex-presidential candidate speaks a little of himself when he salutes Zohran Mamdani for his result “Higher than the forecasts of the polls” ? We remember that in 2022, he had castigated the institutes which all underestimated him. In 2024, during the anticipated legislative elections, no large house had given the new popular front in the lead.
“Do not believe the polls,” says Manuel Bompard
“The polls gave him 1 % in February, 10 % in March, 20 % in May and 32 % last week. Zohran Mamdani has just achieved more than 43 %. Do not believe the polls “supports his right arm, Manuel Bompard, in an obvious wink to France.
As for the victory by KO on the center-left, it is also an old dream of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, too happy to have gathered 22 % of the votes in 2022, eleven times more than the candidate of the Socialist Party Anne Hidalgo. In the battle for internal leadership on the left, any victory (even thousands of kilometers) serves as a support point. The same refrain was also taken up by his closest.
“Facing the extreme right, only a clear, popular and determined left can win. Everywhere “rejoices the European deputy Manon Aubry, when the vice-president LFI of the National Assembly Clémence Waitted speaks of a “Excellent news”. The internal victory of Zohran Mamdani, who must still be confirmed on November 4 during the municipal elections, is not a « surprise » For Mathilde Panot.
“Background work” and “rupture program”
The president of the LFI group at the Assembly considers that the American socialist has operated a “Background work”défuting a “Breaking program” sans “Compromise”do “Campaign with people rather than money” and allowed, thanks to a patient “Door-to-door” of “Relume hope”. “This is the only recipe to win in the face of neoliberalism, in the far right and resignation”she says.
This is not the first time that the rebels draw lessons (sometimes hastily) of elections organized abroad. After the defeat of Kamala Harris against Donald Trump, they had reproached the Democratic candidate for a lack of clarity on the merits: the former vice-president of Joe Biden had made a campaign too moderate in their eyes. During his journey in the United States in April, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had spoke with Bernie Sanders.
