When the ‘Gauche’ Speaks only to a Few

El Pais

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A year after the presidential elections in France, there are those who already have it all “tied up.” In their eternal red tie, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the flimsy of French politics, officialized his candidacy at the beginning of the month in the TF1 newsstand, without hesitation to do so in resorting to an expression — “nous c’est carré” (we have it all tied up) — more typical of the language of the young people he wants to attract than of a 74-yea…