Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the rebellious candidate for the presidential election, unveiled his campaign poster on Thursday and the main thrusts of his project.
It intends to make water a central theme, capable of bringing together environmental, social and economic issues.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been a presidential candidate since last November, but the member for Bouches-du-Rhône officially launched his campaign on Thursday.
A campaign in which the theme of water will hold a central place.
His poster, freshly unveiled, moreover sets the tone: we see Jean-Luc Mélenchon gazing into the distance, advocating popular union, with the sea in the background. It recalls his establishment in Marseille, but also the openness to the Mediterranean and, according to the candidate's teams, his desire to set up a refugee reception policy.
A metaphor for ecological and social issues
But why such an obsession with water? Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already answered it during a virtual meeting organized last April and devoted to this theme. "Because it is the most concrete ecological problem," he explained. Thursday morning, at a press conference, the candidate of rebellious France hammered it again. "The question of water is becoming the central question of humanity. With the drought, water will pose all the questions of the mode of production in which we live and therefore the social question that goes with it. C 'is the first trait that will be the characteristic, the stop of the campaign that I am going to lead, ”he declared.
“After the union of the left, quickly the #Popular Union!
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- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) July 1, 2021
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Within rebellious France, it is hammered that water is in danger, monopolized by multinationals, and that it also suffers from the pollution of plastics and pesticides.
"The water cycle is disrupted," explains Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who wants to make this threatened resource a common good.
He is also campaigning for a purely public management of water.
Insubordinate France even organized a vote a few months ago to have the fundamental right to water enshrined in the Constitution.