Reims (AFP)
The rebellious presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, urged young people to mobilize in his favor and "pass the hypocrisies to the karcher", Sunday at the end of the convention of his movement in Reims.
Young people were an important component of his electorate in 2017, when he reached fourth place with 19.58% of the vote.
It is therefore to them that the tribune addressed at the conclusion of his meeting started by women parliamentarians, while the voting intentions attributed to him by the polls stagnate between 7 and 13%, far behind Emmanuel Macron.
"This world is beautiful and you deserve a less ugly world than the one they are preparing to leave you," he said, referring to the Head of State, whom he had crushed in the minutes preceding .
"We need everything you are able to give us, your vigilant, seasoned, demanding participation, which makes you read to the last line of the programs", pleaded the one who prides himself, six months before the first turn, to be the only one with a program.
He in the process scratched the environmentalist Yannick Jadot, moderate and pro-European Union, with whom he is neck and neck in the polls and who could dispute the youth vote.
"Ask yourself how all these fine talkers will do (...) to make political ecology without attacking capitalism, ecological protectionism with European treaties which provide for free trade" and "bleating in rhythm + L 'Europe, Europe, Europe! + ", He said.
For Mr. Mélenchon, "it is this kind of hypocrisy that the young generation must go to karcher".
"Ecology without class struggle is gardening".
L'Insoumis raised the 2,000 activists gathered at the Parc des Expositions chanting: "Victory is possible, don't think I'm saying it because I want it as madly as you do, but because France, which is groping, will find its way as always in History from the will of its people: to live well, to live better, together, without hatred, without religious war, without selfishness, in sharing ".
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