It was not just the launch of the European campaign that the Insoumis organized on Saturday in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
It was also, and perhaps above all, the launch of the presidential campaign.
“2027 starts today and we are not ashamed to say it
,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon repeated in front of more than 3,000 heated activists.
“The challenge of this election is to come together to build an alternative to the duo between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
The post-Macron begins on June 9
,” continued head of the list Manon Aubry from the podium.
The mantra was hammered out all afternoon by the rebellious staff.
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The movement has also announced that the three-time candidate for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, will appear in last place on the list led by Manon Aubry.
If he has no chance of being elected, this symbolic participation contributes to nationalizing the issue of the election.
LFI hopes in this way to mobilize its electorate which is particularly prone to abstention during intermediate elections.
Manon Aubry has stated the objective of arriving first on the left by exceeding the score by 10% on June 9.
A minute of silence for Gaza
The strategy was clearly displayed throughout the speeches: haro on non-voters.
“If you abstain, you vote for Macron and Le Pen, you vote against yourselves
,” thundered Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The founder of the party began his speech with a plea for
“the right to vote”
, which is
“not only a duty”
, but
“a dignity”
and
“a terrible power that all the powerful fear”
.
A remark which echoes a warning, launched a little earlier by Manuel Bompard to the militant furnace.
“It’s a tough campaign ahead, a campaign against resignation
,” he warned, before urging the assembly to
“empty the ocean of resignation with (its) hands
. ”
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The head of the list Manon Aubry, today credited with 7% of voting intentions in the polls, did not say anything else in front of the activists.
“We are going to need a lot of strength if we want to change everything
,” she harangued, echoing the campaign slogan unveiled on Saturday:
“The strength to change everything
. ”
Anxious to embody a unity list, in the tradition of the late Nupes, Insoumise welcomed the elected representatives of Europe Écologie-Les Verts who joined it: MEP Damien Carême, who appears in eighth position, or the deputy Aurélien Taché, who defended his support for Manon Aubry on the stage of the Parc des Exposition de Villepinte.
Another surprise was revealed on Saturday.
The support of the president of the Reunion, Huguette Bello, a time communist activist.
She appears in the penultimate place on the list, in an ineligible position.
Like her, many overseas elected officials supported the candidacy led by Manon Aubry.
In her speech, Huguette Bello demanded that the
“Palestinian people”
be freed from the
“colonial yoke”
.
The situation in the Middle East occupied an important place in the interventions on Saturday afternoon.
A minute of silence was observed for the victims in Gaza at the request of Franco-Palestinian candidate Rima Hassan.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, also called for peace in Ukraine.