Here is Jean-Luc Mélenchon who goes back on stage, arms raised facing the crowd, in front of a new campaign poster in the colors of Nupes. You can almost read on his face a relief to find everything: the desk, the public. The chef of the “Insoumis” savors, Monday, November 14 in Clermont-Ferrand, and enters the hard from the first minutes “the Jupiterian twilight of a mandate which begins as the end of a reign”. “You have the impression of having someone who is there and who goes to the scull, sometimes here, sometimes there”he said, speaking of the President of the Republic.
“Emmanuel Macron goes to the scull”, “this president is floundering”: to launch his campaign against the high cost of living in Clermont-Ferrand, Jean-Luc Melenchon reinstalls the duel with the head of state @franceinfo pic.twitter.com/CTZIAs6Fcv
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As during the presidential and legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron remains the number one opponent on all subjects: international affairs, European diplomacy and especially in the National Assembly. “Don’t try to be nice to them, he warns. It’s no use ! (…) Macron says: if you vote for censorship, we dissolve. He does it like it’s a threat. But we are not afraid! it’s called democracy. At 17, as far as the “Rebellious” are concerned, we lead the dance!
For more than an hour, Jean-Luc Mélenchon unfolds his political analysis even if it means relegating the main subject of his meeting to the second part: the fight against the high cost of living. Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus flies to the aid of his troops. He is no longer in the National Assembly and yet he says “we”he says “we” when he speaks of “rebellious” deputies.
The one who no longer has a mandate, but who still directs the group’s decision-making, wants to support Louis Boyard during this meeting, insulted by the host Cyril Hanouna on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”. Without however definitively condemning the facilitator. “Cyril Hanouna, I’m not going to throw stones at him, he’s just open-faced, he doesn’t have other people’s good manners, he doesn’t know how to twist poison and lace. ‘Fuck you’, ‘I don’t give a fuck’, etc. : here, we speak like that to a deputy… Imagine the reverse. Imagine if it was Louis who had spoken like that. What would we not have said of the rebellious! This deputy, Louis Boyard, also announced on Tuesday that he was going to file a complaint against the host of the C8 channel. Cyril Hanouna has let it be known that he is complaining in turn.
In Clermont-Ferrand, it is therefore with the fight against the high cost of living that Jean-Luc Mélenchon closed his meeting. He recalls the demands of the “Rebellious”: the blocking of prices, the increase in wages with a minimum wage of 1600 euros, a proposal which will arrive in ten days at the National Assembly. With concrete examples to speak to activists, Jean-Luc Mélenchon beats the recall of the troops. “Alert! Get ready! That’s why we’re doing this campaign, that’s why I’m here tonight. We don’t wait in our offices to find out what life is going to become, we take the front. These are alert meetings. Young people, pensioners, no, you are not condemned to struggle and misery. ! France deserves better than a school in tatters, a hospital that doesn’t work, unhappy people everywhere! We can do otherwise, we can do stronger!”
Against Emmanuel Macron and to continue to exist and to surf the last elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is betting on the image of a leader surrounded by his own, from the left, but also from people. With the idea of a next big march against the high cost of living in the coming weeks.