French presidential election: Jean-Luc Mélenchon fills the room in Montpellier
Jean-Luc Melenchon, in Montpellier, February 13, 2022. AFP - PASCAL GUYOT
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Nearly 8,000 people were present on Sunday February 13 to listen to the “Rebellious” candidate talk about purchasing power and the fight against inequality during this tenth campaign meeting.
Themes on which Jean-Luc Mélenchon intends to stand up against the one who symbolizes for him all the excesses: Emmanuel Macron.
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From our special correspondent in Montpellier
,
Aurélien Devernoix
Second round atmosphere in Montpellier.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon may admit that the path to the Elysée is narrow, the "rebellious" activists are beginning to believe it.
"
2017 hasn't gone far already, and there was a mini Macron hope, but here I think that neoliberalism has burned all its cartridges, for me, it's more than a mousehole than we have there
, ”says François.
And to enlarge this mouse hole, Jean-Luc Mélenchon poses as the only alternative to the Head of State: "
Either it's me, or else, you have Mr. Macron.
»
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The Insoumis candidate attacked the management of inequalities in the country, drawing a parallel between the profits of the richest and the wages of the poorest: “
French billionaires have won 236 billion euros in 19 months, that is to say 12 billion a month, and while they did that, the others suffered endlessly!
These are, for example, these 17 professions thanks to which everyday life is possible: home help and household help: average 682 euros per month!
Accompanying students with disabilities: 750 euros per month!
»
boxing match style
On the stage in the center of the room, like a boxing match, Jean-Luc Mélenchon plays the opposition of the programs.
“
In two months, the minimum wage will be
1,400 euros per month, if you don't want to, vote Macron!
»
Austerity versus welfare state.
Nest of billionaires against the workers' camp, president of the rich against the candidate of the people.
Simplistic?
Jean-Luc Mélenchon assumes: “
You are caricatural Mr. Mélenchon.
Yes !
Because the situation is caricatural.
The financial capitalism of our time is a parasitic capitalism!
»
A strategy of frontal opposition which allows Jean-Luc Mélenchon to continue to garner support in the centers of social protest.
This Sunday, a figure of the "Yellow Vests" and another of the movement of caregivers joined his Parliament of the Popular Union.
At a meeting in Montpellier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon once again vilified the economic and social record of Emmanuel Macron.
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France
Presidential France 2022
Jean-Luc Melenchon
Emmanuel Macron