In politics, words are acts. However, today, the political surges and the programmatic speeches turn readily sour, violence even with the anathema. With for megaphone, the leader of the radical opposition, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the elected officials and the troops of France Insoumise.
Their favorite target: Emmanuel Macron. Particularly since the Yellow Vests crisis and the pension reform. Has Mélenchon the inspired tribune transformed into an edgy populist?
Macron compared to a monarch
For the past few weeks, words have more than ignited, they have been inflamed, bloodied… “Louis XV began his reign under the nickname of Bien-Aimé . We will bury him at night under the stone throws ", wrote on his blog on January 21, the leader of the rebellious who does not hesitate to compare the head of state, elected however by universal suffrage, to the monarch of the Old regime engaged in a deadly right-wing drift.
A few days before, "in anticipation of the January 21 strike", Raquel Garrido, former spokesperson for La France Insoumise and companion of LFI deputy, Alexis Corbière, also summoned the monarchy under divine law and retweeted a message from Yellow Vests proclaiming "Louis XVI, Louis XVI, we beheaded him, Macron, Macron, we can start again ..." A warning? "It's an image, of course," we insist on the side of the rebels.
Climate of hatred and violence
As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon's own anger, they would not be a loss of composure, but the expression of a will intended to respond to the very special cycle inaugurated, according to the leader of the Insoumis, by the Macron regime, and marked by violence where the supposed politicization of justice and the police plays a key role. "What I am proposing is ample," he said. We want to make a constituent, we want to modify the whole production, we want to change life… And we would like me to say that in a low voice, with the chafouine mine of a first in the class? "
Long carried by the rebels, this verbal anger seems, since the pension reform, to spread to a large part of the left. "My fight against a candidate for finance is that there will be, in 2022, a candidate for social justice", confides Fabien Roussel, leader of the Communist Party who justifies the climate of "hatred and violence" by the absence of social dialogue. Usually calmer, Olivier Faure, the boss of the PS compares Jean-Yves Le Drian and Olivier Dussopt, to "a club of anonymous alcoholics, who in the early morning find themselves after a hangover".
A violence totally assumed by the leader of the PS after the initiative of the two ex-socialists who became ministers of the macronie consisting in creating a movement to the left of the majority ... Excesses of political and controlled language, but which were carefully kept to the gap François Hollande and Bernard Cazeneuve, also on the offensive against Emmanuel Macron.
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