The main point here is that when you don't have the support of police and military at all, the risk for democracy is lower... when you have their support, it is easier to be more authoritative. Do you agree with this ?

A general idea of the vote of police and military https://twitter.com/Cluster_17/status/1544352151467528196?la... (to be taken with some distance, it is a poll from cluster 17)

Note that Melenchon was proposing to hire 10,000 more policemen