The embarrassment is palpable among the Greens. After having succeeded in convincing the Communists in extremis to join his march against the high cost of living on October 16, Jean-Luc Mélenchon once again irritates his allies. And there again, it is with a tweet that the tensions arrive. A message in which the rebellious leader draws a parallel between the demonstration of October 16 and the French Revolution, calling to bring “the king, the queen and the dolphin“.
>> “Do better on October 16”: with a tweet evoking the French Revolution, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reveals the divisions within Nupes
A tweet that agitates until Strasbourg Friday, October 7, where environmentalists hold their parliamentary days. You could say they didn’t really need that, as they try to extricate themselves from the streak around Julien Bayou. Here they are caught up in the outings of their rebellious ally that some consider cumbersome. “I think that the brutalization to this point of the political debate, in the end, only serves Marine Le Pen”, analyzes MEP Yannick Jadot. “It does not serve to advance our proposals. It builds distrust vis-à-vis politics, we are not in a situation where we have to put the heads of our leaders at the end of a peak“, advances the former environmentalist presidential candidate.
Behind him, a member of the management of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) rolls her eyes when asked if Jean-Luc Mélenchon is going too far, for her, it’s obvious. A councilor denounces the “storytelling“Rebellious people around the Revolution,”they feed the buzz machine!“, he gets annoyed. Sandrine Rousseau, too, is embarrassed, but does not want to attack the rebellious leader head-on: “October 16 must mark opposition to the Macron government. And besides, we don’t cut off heads“, advances the deputy of Paris Sandrine Rousseau, a little embarrassed.
“We walk, we groan, we shout, we dance, we are happy, but on the other hand, no, we don’t cut heads.”
Sandrine Rousseau, MP for Parisat franceinfo
Others refuse to react and rather despair of the media noise caused by this new tweet. “It’s a micro-controversy“, tries to demine Cyrielle Chatelain, the new leader of the environmental deputies. Another executive rolls her eyes when she brings up the subject, annoyed. dissociate of this implicit call to insurrection. “It is a mistake“, tance lGreen MP Sabrina Sebaihi. “Rather, we must positively mobilize people. I don’t think saying ‘go and get Macron at I’Elysium‘, even if it’s not exactly what it says, it is the right method to mobilize people on an issue as important as their pensions“, she continues.
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
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he persists and signs. Once is not custom, he explains and re-explains his first tweet with other messages. He responds to the figures of the majority who are indignant here and there, but also to his allies. He writes in particular in a second tweet: “Dear friends, 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.“
Is the leader of the Insoumis attempting a coup, when the Communists agree in extremis to participate in the march with the others, after weeks of negotiations? With his tweets, he wants in any case to show that he is still in control, especially on this march against the high cost of living, the first major event of the Nupes, outside the hemicycle.