Alexis Delafontaine 9:34 a.m., January 17, 2023

Two days before the general mobilization against the pension reform, the unions and the left-wing parties are getting into battle order.

If several delegations of deputies and elected members of the NUPES, have planned to join the Paris procession at the call of the inter-union, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has chosen to join the Marseille demonstration.

The day of mobilization against the pension reform promises to be massive this Thursday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former leader of France Insoumise announces that he will be "behind the unions" to demonstrate in Marseille, confides his entourage to Europe 1. " We must encourage this extraordinary trade union", proclaims the former rebellious leader, who uses all his weight in this battle.

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With a double objective in mind for Jean-Luc Mélenchon: to roll back the government, but also to get back in the saddle, after several tormented months.

Why Marseilles?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already paraded several times, in the Marseille city, where he was elected deputy in 2017. But this time, he will join a procession less media, because all the union leaders will be them, at Paris.

The former rebellious leader also wishes to decentralize social protest and highlight the various meetings of his left-wing comrades, everywhere in France.

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This choice will also allow him to avoid the embarrassing and successive questions of journalists, on the Adrien Quatennens affair and on the appointment of Manuel Bompard at the head of insubordinate France.