Ran Halevi is research director at the CNRS and professor at the Center for Political Research Raymond Aron.
This beginning of the year seems as brackish for Jean-Luc Mélenchon as the end of the previous one.
The movement he had created from scratch and which he ruled as he pleased for years threatens to escape him.
We imagine him flabbergasted, furious, to see himself publicly challenged by a platoon of intractable feminists, young rebels in love with internal democracy and even some veterans of the "historic channel", recently surprised to find themselves in the cart of a purge all Jacobin.
For Mr. Mélenchon, unaccustomed to answering for his actions, these outraged people are just a pack of ungrateful people who owe him everything because they are nothing without him.
Something in this factory of radicality, a noisy coupling of chavismo, lambertism and robespierrism apparently no longer operates and goes so far as to shake the statue of Lider Maximo.
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