On Wednesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wanted to talk about his presidential campaign, not the Covid.
The exercise was impossible.
The rebellious candidate, leading the left according to a latest Harris Interactive poll, therefore resigned himself without too much difficulty to shoot red balls on the management of the health crisis by the executive, and by Emmanuel Macron in particular,
"Contemptuous of the Republic"
.
"I do not like mess but what they do leads us straight there"
, warned the candidate.
He thus points to
“the contradictions of the official discourse between morning and evening”
, anything that
“puts disorder in people's minds”
and above all perhaps a tone considered
“infantilizing and threatening”
.
A fine of 135 euros,
"It's 10% of the minimum wage"
, he was annoyed, judging the sentence
"fierce"
.
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It was also impossible for him not to attempt a long digression on vaccines, one of his hobby horses.
Furious at having been ridiculed for his doubts about the cold chain necessary for the vaccine or the messenger RNA technique, Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes he has his revenge.
“The Atlanticist tropism is extended to all reality, including the vaccine.
If he's American?
He is fantastic!
When I spoke about the Russian vaccine, I was laughed at.
Learn
, he told reporters present,
that your other model, Ms. Merkel, is discussing with Russia to produce.
It might make a difference… ”
But the LFI candidate may well be the swagger, he said he was worried.
If he announced the presentation of his final program next fall - after a review that has just been open to public contributions - the campaign promises to be complicated.
"A heavy handicap"
Sunday February 7, a new meeting
"in augmented reality"
is organized, baptized the Forums of the future in common.
Citizens will challenge the leader of the rebellious in the form of these famous holograms, introduced in his campaigns since February 2017. The leader of the rebels and his teams are never short of ideas and often pioneers in technology.
But the business has its limits.
"Social networks and meetings on the internet produce effects that can be compared to those of meetings but they do not produce the same catharsis, it is a serious handicap"
, he admitted.
These solutions do not give rise to
"the feeling of strength which reinforces the force which shows itself"
.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, since his first campaign in 2012, has been recognized for his talent as a speaker and the scope of his meetings, in Paris but also in the major regional capitals.
The deputy for Marseille says he is very aware of
"the place played by these gatherings"
, in particular for their
"very great contagion force"
.
“I am told that only the convinced come.
Perhaps.
But these convinced come to draw strength from it.
And for the young generation, it is sometimes the first contact with politics. "" A rally, a meeting
, insists Mélenchon,
it is always more than a simple addition of people in a room.
These are boosters, it shakes, it makes people think differently.
Yes, this difficulty will affect us. ”
"I belong to a current that has gone through vertiginous ups and downs, I am not afraid of it,"
he slipped, anxious to appear appeased, both in the face of possible changes in the polls and with other alleged candidates from the left.
If he was caustic towards them given their low score in the Harris Interactive poll, he also invited them to a truce.
They are not my enemies, he wants to hear.
He judges that the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo or the ecologist Yannick Jadot will be able to take
"on the Macron electorate"
and therefore
"reduce (his) march of the second round"
.
"If the traditional left keeps throwing stones at whoever is in the lead, we will all back down
," he warned.
We have nothing to gain from throwing stones at each other, neither they nor I.
If throwing stones advanced our ideas I would
”.
