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When Jean-Luc Mélenchon prefers revolution to union

2023-02-20T19:13:17.615Z


ANALYSIS – If ever the three-time presidential candidate had thrown his left-wing populism into oblivion, he went looking for it there.


Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to decompartmentalize.

He wants to blow up the barriers, the doors, open the windows, break the shutters, lift the mountains, burn the tinsel of the old politician to embody, he, the new man, a savior capable of bringing together all over the place: unions, associations , movements, parties.

He only wants to see one head: his own.

Lately, we have been able to observe a hesitation, a balance between two lines at home

”, explains Stefano Palombarini, academic and author with Bruno Amable of

Where does the bourgeois block go 

(The dispute).

There is his oldest line, that of left populism, of this spokesperson for a people who no longer feel represented by any mediation.

That also, more recently, of the Nupes, which plays on the balance of power with the other parties of the left to force them to converge on a program of rupture, but within the framework of an alliance and having good relations with trade unions.

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On Sunday, Philippe Martinez accused the Nupes of "appropriating the social movement to relegate the unions to the background"

If ever the…

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Source: lefigaro

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