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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: the communitarian turn

2022-05-20T04:57:48.850Z


SURVEY - Jean-Luc Mélenchon was acclaimed in working-class neighborhoods, in particular thanks to the Muslim vote. As the legislative elections approach, the French political landscape seems to have to deal with the community vote.


When asked the question, she answers with enthusiasm and a great burst of laughter.

“What was my vote in the first round of the presidential elections?

No problem, I'll answer you!

My voice went to Mélenchon.

I didn't hesitate for a second."

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Fatiha also concedes to having made some almost unreasonable accommodations with her first, rather liberal political sensibility.

Executive in the insurance, the reason, she says, would like that she carried her vote for Emmanuel Macron.

A vote without conviction

But, against all odds, she voted for Mélenchon,

"because he's the only one to defend Muslims."

The young woman, of Kabyle origin, grew up in the Karl-Marx estate of Bobigny.

Today she lives in a pretty little pavilion in Sevran, but does not deny her working-class origins.

If she does not wear the veil, this mother of three children wants to define herself as Muslim.

Attached to the practice of her religion, she makes sure to eat halal, does Ramadan and her five daily prayers...

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Source: lefigaro

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