In front of a few hundred people at the Maison du peuple, the former presidential candidate (21.95%) did not confine himself to the theme of this campaign and addressed racism, international politics, education or even the case of deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas.
"We are in a very special moment in the history of France, in a gloomy atmosphere" where "Jupiterian twilight" occurs, judged Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"The mandate begins in an atmosphere of end of reign and we all feel it", he added, criticizing a president "who goes to the scull, sometimes here sometimes there", for example "says hello to Maduro ", the president of Venezuela and "leads the European boat so badly".
Faced with the succession of articles 49.3 drawn by the government, the motions of censure tabled by Nupes then by LFI alone, "it's not a squabble, what we are defending is not only the National Assembly but the very idea of sovereignty of the people", chanted the former deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Emmanuel Macron evokes the hypothesis of a dissolution "as if it were a threat, we are not afraid of it", said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who promised that the Insoumis would try "to bring him down by legal means. , democratic".
Via the march against the high cost of living last October, "we are acting, in any case we the rebels, so that we can put an end to the separation of politics from social forces", he added.
In short, "it's our duty to be ready," said Mr. Mélenchon, referring to a dozen similar meetings in the coming weeks - most of them in his absence.
"The battle against the high cost of living is the battle of capital against labour, these are the big words that stand out", he concluded.
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