For the left, the political battle is not over

Jean-Luc Mélenchon during his speech on Monday in Paris. Pauline Fournier / Le Figaro

There Nudes can thank heaven. Gathered for a press briefing on Boulevard Voltaire, the leaders of the left missed a few seconds to be showered by the torrents of rain which suddenly struck down the procession on Monday afternoon. While, “the whole world is watching what is happening in France”, according to the Insoumise Mathilde Panot, the scene captured by the cameras would have been a stain. Above all, it would have been a symbol of everything that the Nupes wants to avoid: a demonstration of the 1er May wavering, to the tunes of “last stand” in this fight against pension reform.

“We are still in the fight”, ***ured a little earlier a still dry Olivier Faure. “There is a difference between legality and legitimacy”, insisted the first secretary of the PS, as if to remind the French that the adoption of the law and its validation by the Constitutional Council should not prevent the continuation of the movement. “It’s not the Last Stand, it’s…