Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the fiery French far-Left populist, has a habit of peppering his speech with talk of revolution.
The question many in France are now asking is, will the unpredictable and tyrannical ex-Trotskyist call for just that, should Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right National Rally (RN) romp home in snap elections this and next Sunday?
This week, the 72-year-old former MP in the La France Insoumise (LFI) bastion of Marseille stopped short, saying: “If the RN wins these elections, we will enter moral and legal resistance.” In other words, civil disobedience.
