Five days before the legislative elections, the rebellious tribune endeavored both to reassure the French about the program of the coalition left and to mobilize those who abstained from the first round.

"I know where I'm going", promised Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the assistance of the Jean Mermoz room, less numerous than for his presidential campaign meetings but exalted by the possibility of depriving Emmanuel Macron of a relative majority and overheated by the 38 Toulouse degrees.

Increase in the minimum wage, blocking of the prices of essential products, retirement at 60, ecological planning, in all 650 measures on which LFI, EELV, the PS, the PCF and Generations have agreed - largely inspired by the first training.

“We are going to plan the change”, summed up Mr. Mélenchon.

"I'm not saying we'll be perfect, maybe we'll be caught here or there by the enormous tension of events, but at least we know where we're going: no, it's not the goods, it's the most precious human being!"

On the contrary, he mocked the vagueness of the opposing camp.

"The eight parties" forming the coalition "Together", "they agree on what", he questioned, mocking "a few points of great technical and intellectual intensity" of the opposing program, such as "better recognizing teachers ".

Five years of additional macronism, he warned, will be "disorder, chaos, one-upmanship, necessarily, because Macron cannot run again, and the war of succession begins now".

Meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Toulouse on June 14, 2022 Lionel BONAVENTURE AFP

"Do not allow these people to hold the upper hand, our country will come out in tatters, we alone are capable of guaranteeing the unity" of the country, claimed the Insoumis.

"The Audacity of the French"

With each good word distributed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the audience bursts out laughing, applauds, even boos the macronists when they are quoted.

Meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Toulouse on June 14, 2022 Lionel BONAVENTURE AFP

Obtain the majority on Sunday?

Nadia, a 57-year-old educator, believes that "it's going to be a bit tight, because a lot of people likely to vote Nupes did not move in the first round".

But according to her, "the disappointment of the presidential election" gave way "to an awareness: a united left front makes it possible to believe in it".

This is what Jean-Luc Mélenchon also got down to.

"Do not believe the pseudo projections (in seats, favorable to Together, editor's note), believe only yourselves, how many people you bring to the vote on Sunday: the whole world is watching us, (...) it needs the audacity of the French".

He particularly addressed young people, who overwhelmingly abstained in the first round, unlike the presidential election where they helped lift Jean-Luc Mélenchon to 22% of the vote.

Legislative 2022: the results of the Nupes parties in the 1st round AFP

"It is ecological awareness that brings us together, the sense of the common good, the youth are rocking en masse on this side, and it is she who will bring the light of the century", chanted the one who says he is aiming for Matignon.

Alexandre Ribaut, who at 24 is resuming studies to become a history teacher, confided his "pessimism about the possibility of having the Prime Minister".

But also his hope "of a very strong opposition to hold better debates" than in the previous five-year term.

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