Will this time be the right one for Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
The former minister, unsuccessful candidate in the presidential elections of 2012 (11.1%) and 2017 (19.58%) wants to believe it, believing he has a "
mouse hole
" to reach the second round, in a week.
"This one, I'm going to win.
She presents herself well.
Right in front of the mouse hole
, smiled the Insoumis, in Marseille, last weekend.
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Taxation: heavily taxing the richest to make the tax “
fairer
”?
Jean-Luc Mélenchon assures us: France needs a “
fiscal revolution
”.
Anxious to make the tax "
fairer
", the candidate wants to tax the highest income bracket at 90%, from 400,000 euros per year.
But is it legally possible to make the highest incomes pay so much tax?
Read alsoWould it really be possible to tax the highest incomes at 90%, as proposed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
Society: France, a people who “
become creolized
”?
In a meeting last year, Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the upheavals affecting French society.
"
In 2050, 50% of the French population will be mixed
," assured the MP, adding that France is "
creolizing itself at this very moment
".
His statement was demolished by the former head of the LR list in the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, for whom
“to say that society is in the process of mixing is racist.
It does not correspond at all to the identity of the French nation
”.
Is right ?
Read alsoWill 50% of the French population be mixed race in 2050, as Mélenchon says?
Energy: a massive evacuation in the event of a “
problem
” in a nuclear power plant?
Opposed to nuclear power, the presidential candidate returned to the risks surrounding this type of energy.
In the event of a problem at the Nogent-sur-Seine power plant, it will be necessary to "
move 12 million people who are in the Île-de-France region
", he warned against Eric Zemmour, during a debate, at the end of
2021. Is such a scenario realistic?
Read alsoIn the event of a nuclear accident at the Nogent power plant, should “12 million inhabitants” be evacuated?
Politics: left-wing electorates, “
incompatible
”?
Desired by some candidates, the famous union of the left will not have taken place in 2022. At the end of last year, Jean-Luc Mélenchon explained his refusal to join his competitors, indicating that all the candidates were not “
disagreement on fundamental issues
”.
"Polls and surveys show that we don't add up
," he added.
Is his calculation correct?
Read alsoPresidential: are the electorates of the various left-wing candidates incompatible?
Environment: global warming endangers cities?
Last September, the rebellious MP sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming on French territory.
“
In 2050, if we do nothing, the Camargue, the Marais poitevin, Dunkirk and Bordeaux will be under water.
A million French people will be flooded each year
, ”he warned then.
A reasoning taken up a few months later by the navigator Isabelle Autissier, who relied on the example of "
La Rochelle
".
Are these scenarios faithful to the predictions of scientists?
Read also Rising waters: will we no longer be able to “live on the ground floor” in La Rochelle in a century?
War in Ukraine: has NATO broken its word?
Like Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, Jean-Luc Mélenchon underlined the existence of a broken promise from the West vis-à-vis the Kremlin.
“
We failed to speak to the Russians.
We said that if the wall came down, we wouldn't put NATO on their doorstep.
That's what we did in the end
,” he said.
But NATO denies the existence of this promise, adding that “
there has never been such an agreement behind the scenes
”.
Who should you believe?
Read alsoHas NATO promised Russia not to expand to the East?
Employment: are companies abusing short contracts?
Invited on TF1, Jean-Luc Mélenchon protested against the use of short contracts.
“
I no longer accept that 85% of hires are fixed-term contracts
[…].
There must be a maximum number: 5% for very large companies and 10% [for others].
It's enough to mistreat people
, ”he protested.
But would it be possible to apply a "
maximum quota of precarious contracts in companies
", as provided for in the program of the Insoumis?
Read alsoCan we impose a quota of short contracts on companies?
Inheritance rights: can we "
take everything
" beyond twelve million euros of inheritance?
Faithful to his radical line, Jean-Luc Mélenchon assumes it: on inheritance rights, "
beyond 12 million euros, I take everything
".
The surplus, for inheritances above this sum, would therefore be taxed at 100%, in order to ensure redistribution between the wealthiest French people and the others.
But is it possible?
Read alsoAre inheritance taxes as low as Jean-Luc Mélenchon suggests?
Retirement: do we live longer because we work less time?
Work more to live less?
Opposed to a decline in the legal retirement age, Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued in February that we “
live longer, because we work less time.
And wherever you work longer, you live shorter.”
But how does life expectancy really change when you reach retirement age?
Can it be said that shorter careers necessarily translate into a longer life?
Read alsoDoes the increase in the retirement age lower life expectancy?
War in Ukraine: can blue helmets intervene?
A few weeks after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Jean-Luc Mélenchon pleaded for UN intervention.
"In the short term, [in addition to the immediate ceasefire], the UN is being asked to deploy blue helmet soldiers along the 16 nuclear reactors"
, indicated the representative of France Insoumise.
But could the international organization really send peacekeeping forces on the ground?
Read alsoCould we send peacekeepers to Ukraine?
Politics: the left, neglected by the working classes?
This is an idea against which Jean-Luc Mélenchon rises: the working classes would have, over the years, abandoned the left for "
the extreme right
".
"
It's not true
," retorted the elected official last November, adding that "
there have always been right-wing and far-right people in popular circles
".
So, have the working classes really abandoned the left?
Read also Presidential 2022: have the working classes really abandoned the left for the “far right”?
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