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Separatism, secularism: Mélenchon multiplies the developments at Hanouna

2021-02-12T05:25:15.516Z


Candidate for the presidential election of 2022, the Insoumis presented his participation in the program "Balance your post" as "a political act of


Candidate declared for the 2022 presidential election since November, Jean-Luc Mélenchon clearly played the counter-programming Thursday evening by agreeing to participate live in “Balance your Post”, the talk show hosted by Cyril Hanouna.

From the outset, the rebellious leader presented his participation in the program as "a political act of protest" against the debate organized by France 2 at the same time between Marine Le Pen and Gerald Darmanin, in particular on the separatism law.

"A debate between two people who agree about a law whose goal is to point the finger at the Muslims of this country" he denounced.

It is also on this theme that the debate between the member for Marseille and the six columnists of "Balance ton Post", a program where he has multiplied the points and tried to wring his neck out for a long time. which he considers to be received ideas.

The evening, which lasted nearly two and a half hours, began with a very lively exchange with Laurence Sailliet, ex-spokesperson for the Republicans who accused him of confusing “Muslims and Islamists” as a strategy to “target an electoral clientele” .

Jean-Luc Mélenchon protests vehemently.

"If there is someone who is not a separatist here, it's me because I defend the idea of ​​a one and indivisible Republic", he replies, reproaching on the contrary "the attitude electoralist ”of the government majority to“ take back the voters of the extreme right ”.

"The real separatism is that of the rich"

Accusing the columnist of being "aggressive" and "banally reactionary", he tries to reframe the debate.

“The real religious separatism, if you want to talk about it, is the one that exists in Alsace Moselle where we pay the rabbis the priests 60 million euros

(Editor's note: under the Concordat)

.

The real separatism is that of the rich when they create their neighborhoods, when they are among themselves.

In cities, you have 2% of social housing, against the law ”thunders the deputy for Marseille.

A little later, the candidate attacked Geoffroy Lejeune, editor-in-chief of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, head on, accusing him of having qualified him as an “Islamo-collaborator” on one of his newspaper.

“Politically, I am opposed to political Islamism.

My friends died of it so I'm entitled to a minimum of respect.

Respect your opponents.

Do not invent signs for us ”replies Jean-Luc Mélenchon, qualifying his opponent as a“ far right ”man.

"I don't want a religious war"

The tension falls a little when the rebellious leader is very quickly questioned about his participation in the march of November 10, 2019 against Islamophobia, which was notably joined by the CCIF, a collective recently dissolved by the government.

"I am proud to have been there, I will do it again whenever necessary," Mélenchon said.

I plead for the unity of France.

We must make France from scratch.

I don't want a religious war.

By continually pointing the finger at the same ones, we provoke reactions of rejection, a feeling of extremely dangerous frustration ”.

Same defense strategy step by step when Cyril Hanouna accuses him of stirring up anti-cop hatred for having treated the police as “barbarians” at the time of the Yellow Vest protests.

"The only Republican stronghold that you do not defend is the police" abounds Laurence Sailliet.

“I never said that all the police were barbaric, says Mélenchon.

I am for a republican police force.

And I am for the offending police officers to be punished so as not to taint others with their acts ”.

He nevertheless promises to recast the police "from the cellar to the attic" if he is elected, in particular by re-establishing the local police.

"I no longer want to participate in traps"

At the start of the program, during a tête-à-tête in his dressing room with Cyril Hanouna, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also denied the accusations of anti-Semitism which are sometimes opposed to him.

“It's unbearable to see this sign hanging, he breathes.

It is shameful to do that.

Whenever there is a battle against racism, I will be there ”.

The rebellious leader also justified his express request that the columnist Éric Naulleau be absent from the plateau.

"Mr. Naulleau is systematically extremely aggressive with me and even insulting," he explained.

I no longer want to participate in fights and traps ”.

Source: leparis

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