Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris.

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not support Emmanuel Macron in the face of personal attacks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The leader of rebellious France believes that the president has “totally lost control of the situation”.

France recalled its ambassador to Ankara to Paris after the Turkish president publicly said he doubted the “sanity” of his French counterpart, whom he accuses of being “anti-Muslim”.

Asked about France Inter on his support for Emmanuel Macron in this affair, the member of Bouches-du-Rhône replied: "I have done it several times to support him, I will not do it anymore because the best I can to do is to be silent ”.

"He didn't plan anything"

“When we were bombed in Syria, when we were threatened in Libya, he was told over and over again that it was time to pose the problem of knowing why we are allied in NATO with someone who bombs or threatens us, he did nothing and he did not plan anything, ”he continued.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon had notably challenged Prime Minister Edouard Philippe at the National Assembly on October 15, 2019 after Turkey's invasion of Syria to fight the Kurds there.

“Yesterday evening, the president, for reasons that none of us can understand, spread in a series of tweets (…), he totally lost control of the situation,” he said. -he criticizes.

Accused of "Islamo-leftism"

President Emmanuel Macron, facing a new controversy with Turkey and a call to boycott French products in the Arab world, after his recent remarks on Islam, in the context of tributes to the memory of Samuel Paty, has broadcast on Sunday evening several tweets affirming its values ​​and highlighting in particular its rejection of "hate speech".

"I suppose he does not want my support since he gave the order to charge us as left Islamists or whatever, Islamo-leftists," accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"The President of the Republic, instead of coming now begging for support, would do well to think about what his strategy will be: France is demeaned, humiliated and ridiculed, what does he intend to do, apart from tweets?

He asked.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also attacked Jean-Michel Blanquer who attacked him on Sunday for his supposed “Islamo-leftism” in the

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He accused him of being "an enemy of public national education" and of "promoting organizations of denominational schools".

"National Education must support teachers instead of keeping them on a leash and wanting to suspect them all the time of not doing their job," he added.

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