with a tweet evoking the French Revolution, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reveals the divisions within the Nupes

Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for doing better than the Sans-culottes: a tweet from the leader of the Insoumis is controversial, evoking, Thursday, October 6 in the evening, the demonstration planned for October 16 against the high cost of living. He calls to “to march like the revolutionaries of 1789, who forcibly brought the King, Queen and Dauphin from Versailles to Paris”.

On October 6, 1789, in the first months of the French Revolution, a women’s march from Paris to the Palace of Versailles resulted in the forced return of King Louis XVI and his family to the capital. Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls on protesters from mid-October to “do better”.

On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the high cost of living. They bring back the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16.

— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 6, 2022

A tweet that greatly displeased the boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who let it be known. “There Jean-Luc you can do better, writes the deputy of Seine-et-Marne in response to the message sent a few hours earlier by the former LFI presidential candidate. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder.”

There Jean Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder. https://t.co/rhIrU0ivok

— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) October 6, 2022

What the first secretary of the PS denounces is indeed the implicit call for insurrection. “Micro-controversy“, assures the deputy Cyrielle Chatelain, at the head of the environmental group in the Assembly and other allies in the Nupes, who refuses to comment. The fragility of the Nupes is however exposed and reveals an alliance between two contradictory lines: the “one revolutionary, the other legitimist. Enough to give food for thought to the socialists who refused the alliance and to its opponents.”After the police kill, Ukraine, the Uyghurs: this is why I do not support Jean-Luc Mélenchon as leader of the left“, says for example Rachid Temal, socialist senator from Val-d’Oise.

For those who asked me why I don’t support #Melenchon as a leader of the left.

After the “Police kill”, Corbyn, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uyghurs…and so many others…a new reason.

I condemn these comments.

Hate and violence, it’s not the left! https://t.co/eFdwEAUb05

— Rachid Temal (@RachidTemal) October 6, 2022

On Friday morning, government spokesman Olivier Véran accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “go too far” with his “call for social violence“repeated the minister several times, before adding the adjective”disguised“because, according to him, the former presidential candidate”can always say: that’s not what I meant“.”It’s not the first time that he crosses the line, he is always in excess“, he estimated, greeting a “dissociation” from “more traditional parties within the Nupes“, in particular that of the boss of the PS Olivier Faure. “The right to demonstrate is constitutional, we respect it, we support it, but hidden or direct or indirect calls for a form of social violence, it’s irresponsible, even more from a political leader“, insisted the minister.

The tweet of the Insoumis is also reminiscent of Donald Trump’s calls to march on Capitol Hill a year and a half ago, some are concerned. What comfort those who consider that it is definitely outside the republican arc. For Aurore Bergé, the president of the Renaissance group in the Assembly, “calling on the French to use force against a power not by divine right but legitimately elected is a disgrace“. And Jean-Luc Mélenchon “definitely discredited“.