With this union of the forces of the left, he hopes to be in the majority.
During his speech closing the Convention of the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes), which brings together several left-wing parties for the legislative elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon established himself as the leader of a coalition firmly opposed to Emmanuel Macron.
Barely on stage, the former presidential candidate went to greet the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou or the coordinator of Générations Sophie Taillé-Polian.
The leader of the communists Fabien Roussel, he had already left for the constituency, to celebrate the marriage of relatives, according to his entourage.
In the public of this room of Aubervilliers, the expectation of the speech of the now leader was palpable.
“It is the first time in 25 years that there is a general agreement of all the forces of the left, from the first round, on single candidacies in all the constituencies”, boasted the leader of La France Insoumise , the leading left-wing party according to its results in the presidential election, which has signed a coalition agreement with Europe Écologie Les Verts, the Socialist Party, and the French Communist Party.
“What was done neither by the left cartel (in 1924) nor by the popular front (in 1936), nor at the Liberation, nor by May 1968, nor by the common program (in 1972), we 'Have done !
“, he welcomed.
"It took 15 days and 13 nights to tune us in, some found the soap opera a bit long, but it's not a soap opera, but a story," he added.
A “concrete, tenable radicality”
"At this time we are writing a page in the political history of France," continued Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A page "of concrete, tenable radicalism", with a movement, the NUPES, which "is a lasting force that lasts longer than an election", he declared on stage in Aubervilliers, where the leaders were seated. ecologist Julien Bayou, socialist Olivier Faure and Générations Sophie Taillé-Polian, while the communist Fabien Roussel had just left after his own speech to go “to marry relatives in Saint-Amand”.
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Among his hobbyhorses, one of the themes that imposed itself in the interval between the two rounds of the presidential election: the retirement age.
"We don't want retirement at 65," hammered Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who spoke of a "break" with a "neoliberal system that plunders nature, destroys human beings, ransacks societies."
The rebellious leader hopes that by obtaining a leftist majority in the National Assembly, he will be appointed Prime Minister - even if he is not a candidate for a seat in the lower house.