Toulouse (AFP)
One tackles Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the other explains why he does not want a 6th Republic: despite convergences, figures "yellow vests" Jérôme Rodrigues and François Boulo shook the Summer Universities of France unrepresented (Amfis), Saturday in Toulouse.
While a few hundred "yellow vests" were demonstrating in several cities, difficult at first glance to imagine these two figures of protest protracted the last few months to sink into the annual ritual very structured of the Rogue, 1,500 activists, 250 stakeholders and 130 conferences and workshops organized in an austere Congress Center.
And each in their own way, Jérôme Rodrigues and François Boulo have energized "Amfis" to the atmosphere more wadded than usual, months of internal tensions and poor electoral results oblige.
Even in the corridors, the first - straight from the Basque side where he demonstrated against the G7 - did not go unnoticed, with his eye less, his beard provided and his voice loud and scratchy for respond to the many requests.
At the stage of a conference with his companion "yellow vest" and Raquel Garrido, he expresses himself standing, barefoot, panoplie yellow and black T-shirt, denim shorts and cap. "I'm going to put a cartouche to Jean-Luc Mélenchon: the Republic is us!", He exclaimed under the laughter and, finally, the applause, with reference to the insubordant leader's phrase, "The Republic is me ", during the searches at the headquarters of LFI last October.
"Ok he was angry, but it is on these kinds of sentences that public opinion no longer believes in politics," he says. The ears of the leader had to whistle, from Latin America where he expects to meet the former Brazilian president Lula in his prison ...
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Faced with this nervous temperament, back in, provocative, François Boulo, rimmed glasses, hair on the nape of the neck, detonates, which makes Jerome Rodrigues laugh: "Did you see the first in the class? I'm the guy the radiator, which stings his taste! "
But with the method and the confidence of the lawyer, in a voice slightly dragging, François Boulo does not hesitate to give a lesson of strategy to the Insoumis.
It tastes little to the Sixth Republic they claim: "The slogans is good to be identified, but they must not be scary, it must be reassuring.But your change of regime is very scary. While if we get the RIC, we actually changed the diet, Macron share direct! "
Then follows a plea for General De Gaulle: "It was a patriot who defended the general interest of the Nation". Whispers in the room. The same as when Jerome Rodrigues delivers his point of view on the need for a leader: "On (the + yellow vests +) wants no leader but behind: + Jerome we do what Saturday, we vote for who? + The world is world since there are (individual) alphas, that people must be taken away, galvanized (...) If the leader is strong, the team will be strong ".
"That, it troubles me", will react to AFP Michel, a long-time activist from a nearby village. "That's why there is all this difficulty to converge, but we do with, we are with them, we do not want to be in front."
The two figures nevertheless expressed numerous agreements with the Rogue. François Boulo was very complicit with Manon Aubry in a conference on tax evasion. Jerome Rodrigues, has passed a wave of silence moved by entrusting his anxieties, after losing an eye because of a launcher of defense balls (LBD): "I am the face of repression, I see it all the days in the mirror ".
At the end of his jerky intervention, he raises his fist with the rest of the room, shouting "Resistance!", The rebellious slogan. He blows: "We do not have the same jersey, but we sweat for the same cause: to live better."
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