Presidential 2022: Jean-Luc Mélenchon ready for battle
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On the stage installed in front of the lake of Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, the rebellious chef Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the exercise of the meeting that he likes, near Valence, on August 29, 2021. AFP - OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon signed his political return this Sunday during a speech at the end of the summer school of La France insoumise (LFI).
Eight months before the presidential election, which will be his last, the Insoumis candidate wished to show an intact determination.
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With our special correspondent in Valence,
Aurélien Devernoix
“
I mean loud and clear and firm that abstention is the worst that can happen to us.
"
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
is convinced of this: getting those who no longer vote to vote will be the key to victory in 2022." The
more it votes, the stronger we are, the less it votes, the stronger Macron and Le Pen are.
"
But the rebellious candidate knows that his personality sometimes plays tricks on him. “
Mélenchon, he speaks too loudly or not loud enough. I am what I am. What matters is the program,
”he asserts. A program he had tested in an opinion poll, and for him the result is unequivocal. “
Nine out of ten French people are for minimum wage pensions. Eight out of ten French people are in favor of increasing the minimum wage. Here is ! Yes, there is a majority for our ideas. It must be brought together.
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Mélenchon the social against Macron the liberal, such is the match drawn by the Insubordinate.
And he affirms it: it is the adhesion to the ideas which must make the election. "
We call all those who want it, whatever they have voted before, as long as they agree with our program , to vote for him by comparing solutions, not by adding up hates.
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More fraternity and less debate on identity and secularism.
Subjects on which Jean-Luc Mélenchon knows he will be attacked.
But he is ready for his last battle: "
To live is to struggle without end!"
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