Presidential 2022: Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused of complacency with the Putin regime
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France Insoumise (LFI) for the presidency of 2022, at the National Assembly on March 1, during the debate around the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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He has been in the sights of the Socialist Party and environmentalists since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is accused of complacency with the regime of Vladimir Poutine, in particular by criticizing the influence of NATO in the deterioration of the situation which led to the Russian invasion.
And the front of its detractors widened this Tuesday, March 1 on the occasion of the debate on Ukraine organized in the National Assembly.
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Booed, booed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the podium of the National Assembly.
Breaking with the almost total support of the other parties for the government strategy, the Insoumis candidate for the presidential election was annoyed, especially in the ranks of the majority.
“
We cannot be in a time when we condemn the attack, but to better justify it in the next sentence.
It is not up to Jean-Luc Mélenchon to decide the fate and status of Ukraine
,” said Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, MP for the Republic on the Move.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
"
in an electoral strategy
"
On the right, the deputy Les Républicains Éric Diard is even more pithy.
“
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is still in the electoralist strategy of saying:
'Good, for the presidential elections, how can I stand out from the other candidates!'
It was an intervention, at best, staggered.
At worst, I would say that she was discourteous
, ”he judges.
Criticisms badly accepted in the Mélenchon camp which recalls that its candidate supports the main part of the measures taken against Russia.
And that he never spawned with Vladimir Putin.
“
It was not me who received Mr. Poutine in Versailles in all the luster of the monarchy, it was Mr. Macron
”, supports Alexis Corbière, deputy Insoumis.
The rebels who prefer to see in this reprobation a reaction to the progress of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the voting intentions for the presidential election.
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