2023-04-22 17:00:07
“When we lose, well we lose, but we stay alive and we start again”, said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France insoumise (LFI), on April 5, during a debate with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. A general observation, but which applies perfectly to the battle of the left against the pension reform. Without ever pronouncing the word ” defeat “the left was at its lowest after the decision of the Constitutional Council on April 14.
In 2017, after five months of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term and the adoption of the labor code reform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon conceded: “For the moment, he is the one who has the point. » Six years later, there is no longer any question of making such confessions. The only failure that the “rebellious” of the first circle of Jean-Luc Mélenchon want to recognize is that of the unions and a strategy deemed too soft. For LFI and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the left, the sound of saucepans in Sélestat (Bas-Rhin), Wednesday April 19, their confiscation by gendarmes in Hérault the next day, during two trips by Emmanuel Macron, allows a rebound, at least provisional.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the absence of political victory in the immediate future, finds in it an intellectual consolation: it is for him the validation of his theory of the era of the people. “Arise desired storms” sing the pans! », he wrote on his blog on April 20. The day before, he thought he was witnessing the crossing of a ” threshold ” between two characteristic stages of “citizen revolutions”. The arrival to a phase « destituting », “characterized by the more or less violent confrontation with the characters representing the governmental political world, the media, but also sometimes elected officials in general taken to task as ‘accomplices’ of the system”.
The “casserolades” of the Argentinian crisis of 2001, LFI has been calling for them for a long time. During Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, initiatives in this direction had “completely failed”, recognizes the deputy (LFI) of Val-d’Oise Paul Vannier. For a few days at least, the pans will have been heard, and not only in the hands of “rebellious” activists, but also of quidams or exasperated trade unionists, unrelated to the movement.
Theses validated… by Mélenchon himself
The satisfaction of being right about Jean-Luc Mélenchon, some people have fun with it. In his group, a deputy notes that, ultimately, his theses are always validated… by himself. For the Socialist MP for Essonne Jérôme Guedj, who readily recognizes himself as “matrixed” by the mélenchonism of the time when Mr. Mélenchon was a member of the Socialist Party, to see the beginning of a citizen revolution in the boos that welcome Emmanuel Macron, it is the sign that“there are alternative realities on the left”.
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