“Will Veran and Bergé still go to the military parade on July 14 for the storming of the Bastille (100 dead)? The women’s march in 1789 remains a model of women’s social struggle (0 death capture of the king and DDHC). On October 16 follow the good examples. Walk!“, declared on Twitter the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this Friday noon, after having caused a new controversy with a tweet, published the day before.
>> “Do better on October 16”: with a tweet evoking the French Revolution, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reveals the divisions within Nupes
Dear friends #NUPES, the Women’s March of 1789 cut off no heads or guillotined anyone. 0 dead. The brutalization of social life is expensive living and climate inaction. Let’s walk shoulder to shoulder. #March16October
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 7, 2022
“On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the high cost of living. They bring back the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16″, tweeted the ex-presidential candidate on Thursday, alluding to an episode of the French Revolution and the “march against high prices and climate inaction”, on October 16 in Paris. All the parties of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) have planned to participate.
On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the high cost of living. They bring back the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16.
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 6, 2022
Government spokesperson Olivier Véran and the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, criticized him for this tweet, as did several of his partners in Nupes, including socialist Olivier Faure and environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau.
“Jean-Luc you can do better“, “We are not in a situation where we have to put the heads of our leaders on a pike“, “We don’t cut heads, ever“We were thus able to read from several personalities of the Nupes, therefore targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, still weakened, almost three weeks after his message of support to Adrien Quatennens, who admitted to having slapped his wife.
“I think that the brutalization to this point of the political debate, in the end, it only serves Marine Le Pen, it does not serve to advance our proposals“, said this Friday the environmentalist MEP Yannick Jadot from Strasbourg, where the European Ecology-The Greens (EELV) parliamentary days are held. According to him, “it builds distrust vis-à-vis politics, and we are not in a situation where we have to put the heads of our leaders on the end of a pike“.”We are in a very anxious country, very anxious. There’s war, there’s the energy crisis, we have to be very careful how we do politics today“, he still affirmed in front of the press.
Her former rival in the environmental primary, Sandrine Rousseau, also present in Strasbourg, also reacted to journalists. “No, we don’t cut heads, never, nowhere“said the Green MP.We walk, we groan, we shout, we dance, we are happy too, but on the other hand we don’t cut off heads, no“, she insisted. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon never serves anything“, she added when asked about the possible consequences of this tweet for the “march against high prices and climate inaction”. She then let out a laugh.
There Jean Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder. https://t.co/rhIrU0ivok
— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) October 6, 2022
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was one of the first to react. “There Jean-Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder“, he claimed on Twitter.
“No, dear Olivier Faure, it is up to the Socialist Party to do better because Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not changed, he has always been on this line“, replied Stéphane Le Foll, mayor of the socialist of Le Mans and one of his opponents within the PS. He “request” Thus “the Socialist Party not to participate” at the demonstration “organized by La France insoumise” on October 16 in Paris.