2024-07-12 03:01:06
In France, an opponent of aid to Israel and Ukraine may come to power, as well as an ardent Germanophobe who wrote a book about “German poison.”
Bild reports this.
The left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) alliance won the second round of snap parliamentary elections in France, winning 182 seats. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition came in second (168 seats), and the right-wing National Rally came in third (143 seats). No party won a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, and all of them abandoned coalitions.
BILD columnist Filip Fabian described the NPF as a “strange left-wing alliance of populists, socialists and greens” led by 72-year-old Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whom he calls a “demagogue” and a “left-wing extremist”.
Mélenchon opposes austerity and wants to lower the retirement age. In foreign policy, he opposes Israel and arms supplies to Ukraine, advocating for appeasement of Russia.
The main object of his hatred is Germany. In 2015, he published a book, “Bismarck’s Herring. German Poison,” in which he criticized Germany for its greed and social coldness, blaming it for air pollution in Europe. At rallies, Mélenchon shouted “Merkel to the trash heap!” and wrote on social media: “Frau Merkel, shut up!”
In 2013, he complained that “nobody wants to be German” because they live poorer, die earlier and have no children. He called German reunification in 1990 an “illegal annexation” of the GDR by the FRG.
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