His slightly hoarse voice at the start of his meeting quickly warmed up, as the fog lifted over the countryside surrounding the Reims exhibition center on Sunday morning.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is rarely better on form than in his large presidential meetings.
For one of the first big meetings of his third campaign, he was no exception.
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In front of a thousand activists and animators, gathered for many since the beginning of the weekend for a training convention, the candidate fired with all wood against the pollsters and "
those who run the country
", the nuclear or the 'NATO, Europe too and free trade, "
capitalism incapable of correcting or regulating itself ...
" He made people dream with "
retirement at 60
", his objective "
of 32 hours and week of the four days
”,“
the exit from the European treaties
”and various other promises resulting from the“
red thread of the revolution
”which runs in the history. Mélenchon also wants to "
put an end to wars
". "
We wish good luck to the Malian people who will choose to do for themselves what they want
, ”he said in particular.
"No, the country is not on the right!"
In the news, however, no specific reference to the statements of Emmanuel Macron on Saturday on the responsibility of the prefect of police in place in 1961, Maurice Papon, during the tragic events of October 17.
The deputy Alexis Corbière had asked that be recognized "
a crime of state
" in a forum at the JDD.
Mélenchon was content to denounce previous remarks by Emmanuel Macron on Algeria before French colonization.
While the polling institutes give it around 8 to 9%, sometimes 12% to 13% for the Harris institute alone, in front of the candidate of the ecologists Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's first objective was to potentially revive a campaign machine. stopped. "
No, the country is not on the right,
" he told his people to reassure them, based on the analyzes of polling institutes. While denouncing the methods of these same institutes, which only take into account those affirming their certainty of going to vote. Mélenchon quipped: "
The polls are starting to resemble the dreams of those who run this country
The methods used, however, are not new and are those that some institutes were already using at the same time in 2016, which the rebels dispute.
"
Do not depend on anyone, do not expect compliments from anyone, do not look at those who bark around my calves
", advised the LFI deputy from Marseille to those who could possibly doubt. Hounded by Yannick Jadot in the polls, the Insoumis candidate - who has claimed his commitment to ecology for many years - praised sobriety, in particular energy, in a long tirade against nuclear power, stressing its cost and its dangerousness. “
To all who say we have no fear, leave your phone number so we know who to call in case of a problem
.
Every year, there are accidents,
”he quipped, stressing that there was better to do with the“
150 billion
"Intended" to
refurbish 22 reactors for ten years between now and 2027
".
Even if the campaign program is over - it will go on sale on November 18 - Mélenchon did not go into details on how to shut down the reactors as quickly as possible.
