It had been six years since Jean-Mélenchon had not set foot at the Fête de Humanity. Last year, the presidential candidate went to see his comrades from the Labor Party of Belgium, and the previous editions, of excuses in Covid-19 then in anger, “rebellious” and communists were no longer many gathered. On Saturday morning, a fervent crowd awaited the leader of La France insoumise (LFI), who arrived surrounded by Alexis Corbière, Caroline Fiat and Adrien Quatennens: “Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc! »chanted the packed room.
The great return of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, moreover in his former stronghold of Essonne, this weekend, however, did not sign the end of bickering with the Communists… on the contrary. Seated in front of a seafood platter, Fabien Roussel had launched hostilities the day before, delivering a mixed opinion on the result of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) in the legislative elections: “That a man on the left can draw a positive balance sheet from an election where eighty-nine far-right deputies enter the National Assembly is to forget our fundamentals”he had launched in front of the journalists, pointing rather “glass half empty”.
In the background, the cantor of the “France happy days” continues to cleave. With sledgehammers. Like François Ruffin, he believes that the Nupes has abandoned the popular classes of the towns and the countryside to abstention and the National Rally. “The French talk to us about assistantship, we have to listen to them”he said. “I am not for a France of RSA and unemployment, I do not want to defend allowances, social minima and substitute income, but rather a job to which a salary corresponds. » He also claimed not to ” to share “ the job offer guaranteed by the State, present in the presidential program of La France insoumise.
“This vocabulary is not mine”
As many statements as LFI executives discovered in the press, a few hours after greeting each other almost warmly at the national stand of the French Communist Party (PCF). “This vocabulary is not mine, nor ours, nor that of my communist friends”replied on Twitter Alexis Corbière on Friday evening. With journalists, Fabien Roussel pretended to regret not having been able to meet Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and that the latter did not come to debate at the same time as the other leaders: “Mélenchon likes to be alone in front of his audience. He’s coming, that’s already progress. »
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