Manuel Bompard, campaign director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Tuesday March 22. He answered questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Lorrain Sénéchal.
Presidential: “There is an opportunity to drive out the far right in the first round”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is in third position for voting intentions in the latest Ipsos Sopra Steria survey for franceinfo/Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France. “There is a historic opportunity” that the candidate of rebellious France “can be qualified to play the second round against Emmanuel Macron”believes Manuel Bompard.
Even if he says “always critical of the polls”, Manuel Bompard considers that he “There is a very strong dynamic around the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. All of the thirty public meetings that we hold each week are full each time. And so, we believe in it, of course”.
Death of Yvan Colonna: this is “proof that there was a failure somewhere in the management of the security of the detainees”
Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life for his participation in the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac in 1998, died three weeks after his attack by a radicalized fellow prisoner. After several days in a coma, his family announced the activist’s death on Monday. “When we are incarcerated, we are not there to be killed or assassinated, points out Manuel Bompard. So, from the moment when it unfortunately happened, it is proof that there was a failure somewhere in the management of the security of the detainees within this prison”he estimated.
Presidential: amnesty for all yellow vests? “You have to look at the situation in detail”
Will Jean-Luc Mélenchon really “amnesty all condemned yellow vests”if he is elected president, as he promised on Sunday? “You have to look at the situation in detail”has his campaign manager The LFI candidate “obviously speaks, in this proposal, of those who demonstrated peacefully, who participated in roundabout occupations and who were repressed”he added.
This is “Justice” who “will examine the profiles in detail”then specified Manuel Bompard.“It is not because they have been condemned [ces gilets jaunes] once you can’t say to yourself ‘it was a bad idea in this context to deal with this situation, which was a delicate social situation, by force'”.