"If ever someone had the illusion that it is by banning a meeting that we set back ideas ..."
Guest Friday morning of BFMTV / RMC, Jean-Luc Mélenchon made it clear that he would not count not among those calling for Eric Zemmour's meetings to be banned.
Some on the left are trying the operation, like Stéphane Troussel, the PS president of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The latter launched a petition on Thursday to prevent the large gathering of the nationalist candidate planned in his department on Sunday at the Villepinte Exhibition Center.
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L'Insoumis does not share the socialist method.
"He is wrong,
" he said.
“
It's not just because the very principle of democracy is to also listen to what we don't like.
If we listen to what we like, everyone is of the same opinion, it is no longer useful, ”
wanted to emphasize the candidate.
To face Eric Zemmour, the Insubordinate still defends the debate, as he himself had done at the end of September.
“When you're a Democrat, there aren't fifty recipes.
We must discuss, we must debate ”
, he defended himself at the beginning of November on RTL, while many on the left accused him of having put the future candidate in the media spotlight.
Mélenchon has "changed feet"
The representative of La France Insoumise, engaged in a third race at the Elysee Palace, however assumes to have
"changed feet"
on this strategy.
“I would like to recall that for years, we practiced what Mr. Cambadélis
(then deputy PS, Editor's note)
called
“
democratic harassment
”
. As soon as Mr. Le Pen arrived somewhere, we arrived with our signs and we stood in the way, ”
he said on Friday morning.
"It gave the magnificent result that you know: Ms. Le Pen is in the second round, and Mr. Cambadélis has disappeared."
In 1996, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was also one of the signatories who had demanded the prohibition of the National Front in
Charlie Hebdo
.
“It was useless,”
he admitted in early November.
“So since it's no use, we try to convince.
The contacts I had with Ms. Le Pen had a great impact.
I am ready at any time to start talking again with Mr. Zemmour and Ms. Le Pen, ”
he also said on the air.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also voted Thursday for the resolution of PCF deputy Fabien Roussel, aiming without naming him Éric Zemmour.
The Communist proposed that those convicted of incitement to hatred be ineligible for election.
The text was rejected: the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti estimated that
"judges must remain fully independent"
in such circumstances.
"In my opinion, you cannot be eligible when you are a racist,"
Jean-Luc Mélenchon commented on Friday morning.
