Mélenchon praises Philippe "the elegant" for better criticizing Macron "the bandit"

Noting that tension mounts, behind the scenes, between Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister on the management of the crisis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon saw fit to bring his little grain of salt. In an interview at La Tribune de Genève this Wednesday, the leader of La France Insoumise defended Edouard Philippe. “Everyone knows that it was the president who chose May 11 (the date of the deconfinement, editor's note) , alone and against everyone. The other he obeys, "he said. "Why doubt his personal goodwill?" asked the former presidential candidate.

"Watch it!"

Jean-Luc Mélenchon even took the opportunity - once is not custom - to praise the Prime Minister for a long time. “Edouard Philippe is on the right and has never claimed anything else. He is an elegant man, a pleasant acquaintance, an assumed liberal and who says it clearly, ”assured the chief of LFI. Before engaging in the passion of the Matignon tenant for boxing: “Knowing the sport he practices helps to understand a politician. He is boxing. Watch it! When he answers, he turns and dances in the ring the time it takes for you to let your guard down. At that point, he chooses where to strike: it's a word he took in your speech, and he does what he wants with it, pan! ”, He says. Recognized for his oratorical jousting, Jean-Luc Mélenchon adds: "We can also do a bit of aesthetics in politics, I want to."

Mélenchon does not spare Macron

If he therefore appears, to everyone's surprise, a great defender of Edouard Philippe, the Insubmissive does not mince his words against the Head of State. Emmanuel Macron is, according to him, "a highwayman . " "Himself says he did a heist on power!" , recalls Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “He deceived everyone; He is without faith or law, capable of entering, thanks to us, the people of the left, into the presidency of Mr. Hollande. Then get out by saying that he is neither right nor left, and then become leader of the right, "he laments.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also still defends the thesis that says that the President of the Republic would have been at the initiative of searches at the headquarters of La France Insoumise in the fall of 2018. At the time, the deputy for Marseille had lost his nerves before the police. A slippage that sentenced him to three months suspended prison sentence and 8000 euros fine by the Bobigny Criminal Court at the end of 2019. "A liberal who searches his rivals! This opportunism is unbearable ” , he concludes.