Élysée 2022 made its grand premiere this Thursday, February 10 on France 2. And to start this new program devoted to the next presidential election, Anne-Sophie Lapix and Léa Salamé received Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The leader of La France insoumise is trying for the third time to gain access to the Élysée. IN 2017, he narrowly failed to cross the Rubicon in the first round by winning almost 20% of the vote. Suffice to say that this time the septuagenarian is more determined than ever to extricate himself from the first round. But beware of bloodshed which made his reputation but which could also serve him. Because faced with the two journalists from the second channel, the former minister of Lionel Jospin again let out a certain exasperation.
In question ? Remarks made by the candidate of La France insoumise during a meeting on December 19. Jean-Luc Mélenchon had cited the supposed side effects of the vaccine against Covid-19 on populations massively contaminated by chlordecone, a pesticide banned later than in mainland France. Anne-Sophie Lapix thus criticized Jean-Luc Mélenchon for having taken over “a rumor that is likely to do damage among the population” by not encouraging them to get vaccinated, when only 42% of Guadeloupeans over the age of 12 are currently vaccinated.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon reframes Anne-Sophie Lapix
An intervention by the 8 p.m. presenter who of course quite upset the left-wing leader who did not miss the opportunity to attack the Basque. “So I would have had to say ‘Mme Lapix told me to tell you that it’s not good, children, you don’t know what you are doing’? Listen ma’am, that’s not how we do it. Do your job, I do mine”, replied Jean-Luc Mélenchon very curtly before concluding: “That’s how we do politics. People are not things, people are not children, we don’t give them orders, we convince them. They are free citizens, and it is not because it is in the West Indies that we are going to do it with blows of chicote”.
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