"The government must renounce the electoral use of repression in Guadeloupe and in the overseas territories and departments to embody, in the election, the party of order", affirmed Mr. Mélenchon during a press briefing at the National Assembly.

Very critical of government policy vis-à-vis overseas, Mr. Mélenchon felt that the "bottom line" was "the exasperation against the state of abandonment".

Recalling the shortcomings in the distribution of water, the scandal of chlordecone, a pesticide widespread in banana plantations, endemic unemployment among young people in Guadeloupe, the rebellious leader considers "obvious" that the situation on the West Indian island is going to " -beyond an incident ".

"So much so that we wonder if some have not had the idea of ​​organizing a standoff to prove their authority," he said.

Anxious not "especially not to summarize the situation with flames and fires", Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued that sending units of the GIGN and the Raid, two intervention forces of the Ministry of the Interior, was a "provocation absolutely useless ".

"We can not want to keep people in a row," he added.

"The basic question that is asked are social questions and it is the disenchantment that is settling with the common homeland," he said.

A few hours later, Jean-Michel Blanquer - who spoke on behalf of the Prime Minister, sick with Covid-19 - accused the rebels of "encouraging disorder" and "blowing on the embers", during questions to the government in the National Assembly.

In his response to the head of LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, whose question echoed the reproaches of Mr. Mélenchon, Mr. Blanquer argued that the government had invested "600 million (euros) for a new public hospital in Guadeloupe ", as well as" 100 million "to improve the water network.

"As soon as there is a problem somewhere, you want to exploit it: you do not like the solutions, you like the problems", again launched the Minister of Education to the member of the Val-de -Marl.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also tackled the outcome of Monday evening's meeting between the government and elected officials of Guadeloupe.

"We can not stay on the paternalistic regime and admonition last night. Guadeloupe is not an island populated by children," he criticized, asking the government to "put tangible things on the table ", starting by promising not to dismiss or suspend" staff who are not vaccinated ".

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