Jean-Pierre Chevènement estimated Monday evening on Europe 1 that "the left is dead from having married neo-liberalism".
A phenomenon that the former minister traces back to the early 1980s.
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He is one of the historical figures of the French left.
Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the former socialist minister, estimated Monday evening on Europe 1 that "the left is temporarily dead".
"She died of having married neo-liberalism, when she for example proclaimed, in the name of the Single Act, negotiated by Jacques Delors (then Minister of the Economy under François Mitterrand), the liberalization of capital without harmonizing the taxation of savings (in 1983) ", he ruled.
"Then Jacques Delors became president of the European Commission (1985-1995) and carried out this deregulation that (Margaret) Thatcher and (Ronald) Reagan had proclaimed in the Anglo-Saxon countries. It was little by little that the left fell to 6% in the last (presidential) elections, "continued the former presidential candidate in 2002.
"I invite Mélenchon to be more republican and give less room to demagoguery"
Jean-Pierre Chevènement also returned to the words of Lionel Jospin, made last week, who had expressed his "sympathy" towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"Jospin and Mélenchon voted together for the Maastricht Treaty (in 1992). Since then, Mélenchon has come a little way, and I invite him to be more republican and give less room to demagoguery, which is always easy" , tackled the former socialist minister, who has just published his memoirs (Who wants to risk his life will save it, published by Robert Laffont)
“The Republic is first and foremost a school of asceticism and dedication,” he concluded.