Jean-Luc Mélenchon, outgoing MP for Bouches-du-Rhône and leader of La France insoumise was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Friday June 3. He answered questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
The LREM program is a “a clafoutis of hollow phrases”
Together’s program for the legislative elections “is a clafoutis of hollow phrases, like: ‘we have to consider the teachers better’, ‘we have to think about the hospital'”, tackled Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The leader of the Insoumis denounced “extremely harsh measures for the people such as retirement at 65, forced labor with the RSA”, proposed by the confederation which brings together La République en Marche (LREM), the Democratic Movement (Modem) or even Horizons, the party of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
The “school of the future” that Emmanuel Macron wants to generalize is “abominable”
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the“school of the future” is “abominable” and returns to “dismember national education”, while the President of the Republic announced Thursday that he wanted to generalize this educational experiment carried out in Marseille. If he becomes Prime Minister, the leader of LFI assures that he will restore “the homogeneity of education throughout the country”
“The program I propose decides on the use of 250 billion more”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the criticisms of the presidential majority against the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes): “Yes, it’s true, the program that I propose with my friends decides on the use of 250 billion more, but the billions that are injected into wages, when you give them to people who only have their wages to live, they spend it”, he defended. The return on investment would reach 267 billion euros in “contributions, taxes and duties”according to him.
“Nuclear energy is dangerous, it does not work, it is intermittent”
Asked about nuclear power, a dividing theme on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon assured that it was necessary “build at a forced march all the renewable energy machines that will replace nuclear power”. On the construction of new power plants, the leader of the rebellious conceded that he will comply all the same “at the decision of the National Assembly”, despite a nuclear “dangerous”, “intermittent”, and that “do not work” according to him.
“Mr. Sardou, don’t go, stay, we love you too much!”
Invited to react to the remarks of Michel Sardou, who threatened to leave France in the event of victory of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the legislative elections, the leader of La France insoumise addressed himself directly to this “popular singer who is part of the heritage . “Mr. Sardou, don’t leave, stay, we love you too much and you love your country too much!” he threw at her. Before specifying, ironically: “With the universal tax system that we have imagined, you can even go to hell, I’ll catch you with the note”.