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Hard-left Mélenchon launches 2027 campaign with broadside against National Rally

Founder of French left-wing party France Unbowed (LFI) and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech during a rally to launch his presidential campaign on Place Victor Hugo in Saint-Denis, a northern Paris suburb, on 7 June 2026.
Founder of French left-wing party France Unbowed (LFI) and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech during a rally to launch his presidential campaign on Place Victor Hugo in Saint-Denis, a northern Paris suburb, on 7 June 2026. © Stéphane de Sakutin / AFP

Jean-Luc Melenchon has launched his presidential campaign on Sunday with a rally in Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb that has become both a stronghold for the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party and a symbol of the “New France” he hopes to champion.

Melenchon used his first presidential campaign rally on Sunday to attack the National Rally, accusing the far-right party of promoting a form of “supremacism” that seeks to divide people “along ethnic and religious lines”.

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