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Conte in Italy like Mélenchon in France: the important thing is to lose. The incredible own goals of two incurable populists

With two kicks to the wide field of Schlein (Rai and Liguria), the former prime minister Giuseppe Conte is revealing himself – like Mélenchon in France – the most precious ally of the right, sensationally put back in the game in Liguria

Conte in Italy like Mélenchon in France: the important thing is to lose. The incredible own goals of two incurable populists

Giuseppe Conte it looks more and more like French Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the politician most hated by the French. For both of them, the only important thing is to lose. The series of own goals that the two are scoring is innumerable. Mélenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise, the most intransigent wing of the new Popular Front, achieved a good result in the French run-off elections of July 7, which earned him 74 deputies out of the 182 of the entire Popular Front. It was quite clear that, not having even remotely the majority to form a government, Mélenchon would have to negotiate and seek a compromise agreement between the Popular Front and the Macronians. But that is exactly what Mélenchon refused a minute after the polls closed, nipping in the bud the possibility of a shift to the left of the government. But the leader of La France Insoumise did more by cutting the grass from under the feet of the premiership of the independent socialist Bernard Cazeneuve to which the President Emmanuel Macron he initially wanted to entrust the task of forming the new French government. Two own goals in one summer is quite a record of political self-harm. There's no denying it.

Conte as Mélenchon: the parallel convergences of self-harm

In Italy there are those who are doing everything they can to imitate Mélenchon with one boomerang after another: it is Giuseppe Conte, the contested leader of the Five stars. After reaching an agreement with the Prime Minister Melons on the renewal of the board of directors of Rai and having received a small armchair in exchange, Conte has given a second kick to the project wide field Pd and the center to build the alternative to the center government. It did so in Liguria by demanding the exclusion of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi and other centrist forces from the progressive camp supporting the PD candidate for the Presidency of the Region, Andrea Orlando. Since the conquest of the Region in Liguria will be played out on a handful of votes, Conte has excellent chances of giving the victory to the right, despite the scandal All had until a few days ago put the conservative front in serious difficulty. In France, Mélenchon has effectively put the far right back into play The Pen, in Italy Conte is proving to be Meloni's best ally. But don't worry: the important thing is to lose.

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