"Enough hesitation, in combat!"

It was not only Eric Zemmour to gather his troops this Sunday.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has also mobilized his at La Défense, facing the right and the far right and wants to show that he can unite through his campaign “parliament”, failing to do so on the left.

The rebellious candidate, credited with 7.5 to 10% of the voting intentions in the polls, is for the moment far from the nearly 20% achieved in 2017.

"After everything you've done to us, we're still here!"

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"We are here!

After everything you have done to us, we are still here! ”Exclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon, referring to turbulent years.

At the Espace Grande Arche, it brought together 3,000 people - and 1,500 others in an adjoining room, according to LFI.

While the left is divided in the race for the Elysee Palace, Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched his “People's Union parliament” on Sunday, by participating in the morning in the first monthly meeting of its 200 members.

After having, like an orchestra conductor, shaking hands in the front row of this parliament, he rejoiced: “In our family, there is everything.

What matters is not who we are, but what we are going to do together ”.

Not to be brought back to France Insoumise alone

The Insubordinate wanted to broaden his support so as not to be brought back to the only rebellious France, sometimes criticized for its lack of collegiality in decisions. “We have heard a lot that Jean-Luc Mélenchon would be alone. Do you find him alone? ”Joked the former head of the European list Manon Aubry.

Aurélie Found, figure in view of the left of the social movements, left the presidency of Attac to take that of this "parliament". She had refused to be head of the LFI list at the 2019 Europeans but, this time, obtained enough "guarantees" to engage, she explained to the press. In particular, a regular dialogue with the candidate, not only on the program, which the parliament will help to break down into quantified “plans”, “but also on tactics and strategy,” said this 42-year-old teacher-researcher in economics.

Among the half of non-rebellious, the parliament includes for example Sylvie Glissant, the wife of the poet Édouard Glissant, champion of the “creolization” dear to the LFI candidate, the writer Annie Ernaux, Xavier Mathieu, the former union delegate of the CGT of the Continental AG factory in Clairoix, as well as some politicians, such as Thomas Portes, ex-spokesperson for Sandrine Rousseau during the Green primary, or the Communist mayor of Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis) Azzédine Taïbi. 

"LFI was already a movement of enlargement", but it was "not so easy to convince", conceded to the press Sarah Legrain, kingpin of the creation of the parliament.

"We had to convince that parliament was going to be an area of ​​freedom".

"We need a show of force, including for us"

With this support, Jean-Luc Mélenchon thundered against those resistant to his person: "Join our forces, enough whining, whining, hesitation, in combat!"

In the campaign for more than a year already, he chose this Sunday to hold a meeting, the day after the appointment of LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, and the same day as the first meeting of the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).

"It strengthens our position: we are there, it's not just Zemmour, and it's not just the right," said Manuel Bompard, campaign manager, to AFP.

"Yes, we need to demonstrate strength, including for us, who are sometimes so broken up," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

And to add to the cheers: "We come to give courage to the country, while it is immersed in absurd debates on matters of religion or skin color.

No, France is not the extreme right, France is Social Security, public health, school, research, sharing ”.

"An upward slope?

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Manuel Bompard sees in the sale, in a few days, of nearly 30,000 copies of the program "The future in common" a "quiver of interest" of the voters and "an ascending slope".

But for the director general of the Ifop polling institute Frédéric Dabi, “the presidential election is not just a series of measures, a programmatic offer, it is an incarnation.

And the incarnation of Mélenchon is very damaged.

He worries a lot ”.

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  • France Insoumise (LFI)

  • Presidential election 2022

  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon

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