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How Jean-Luc Mélenchon alienated the whole left

2023-02-22T16:20:07.182Z


STORY - The attempts of the Insoumis to take the lead in the protest annoy the unions and the Nupes. “When Jean-Luc Mélenchon tells me that I am a sectarian, I think of a specialist who speaks to a novice…” Sitting on the floor of a brasserie near the Senate, Philippe Martinez sketches a sly smile under his mustache. Silent on political affairs, the boss of the CGT – who transmits his mandate at the end of March – will say no more. But these words spoken at the end of December, before the confusi


“When Jean-Luc Mélenchon tells me that I am a sectarian, I think of a specialist who speaks to a novice…”

Sitting on the floor of a brasserie near the Senate, Philippe Martinez sketches a sly smile under his mustache.

Silent on political affairs, the boss of the CGT – who transmits his mandate at the end of March – will say no more.

But these words spoken at the end of December, before the confusion over the battle against the pension reform, are enough to say the enmity between the two men, anchored, partly linked to the rivalries between the central traditionally close to the PCF and the Insoumis.

Today, they are leagued against each other.

Martinez accuses the Insoumis leader of

"wanting to appropriate the social movement by relegating the unions to the background"

.

His reformist counterpart of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, also about to let go of the reins of his union, is even more pointed.

“March 7

, he warned on Europe 1,

this is not the extension of the brothel of…

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Source: lefigaro

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