Presidential: Mélenchon calls on the youth to "pass hypocrisies to karcher"

Jacques Serais 7:18 p.m., October 17, 2021

It was his first real meeting for the presidential election of 2022. Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered 2,000 of his supporters this Sunday in Reims.

For the occasion, the leader of La France insoumise unveiled a new movement called "Popular Union", intended to cast a wider net than rebellious France but also to make a new skin while the polls rarely give it above 10% of voting intentions in the first round.

During his speech, the presidential candidate particularly targeted young people.

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"To young people: this world is beautiful and you deserve a less ugly world. But you will have nothing at all if you do nothing," said the leader of LFI. It is no coincidence that the leader of rebellious France wants to speak to the youth. It will be one of the great battles between the candidates of the left, which is more fragmented than ever. And without naming him, Jean-Luc Mélenchon aimed at the ecologist Yannick Jadot: "Ask yourself how do all these fine talkers do? How do you do political ecology if you do not fight capitalism? Because, as we do said, ecology in the class struggle is gardening. It is this kind of hypocrisy that the young generation must pass to the karcher. "

The karcher: a barely veiled reference to the remarks made by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2005. With this diatribe, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also sweeps away any alliance with the Greens, even if he seeks to broaden his base with the creation of his new movement.