"The presidential minority collapsed before your eyes, with Ms. Borne who fully played her role of fuse and who burned during this session in a way," Mélenchon scoffed.
According to him, after this "spectacular failure", the social movement has "a good chance of having the last word". "We are facing a text not adopted in the forms of a parliamentary democracy," insisted the rebellious leader, while the rally, at the call of Solidaires, was gaining momentum.
"There will have been no vote in the Assembly on a text that therefore has no parliamentary legitimacy" and "does not have any in the street," he denounced.
It was "adopted only by the Senate, but neither by the mass of the French, nor by the National Assembly, nor by the unions, nor by the workers' assemblies," added the former presidential candidate.
"The unions are calling for further action and that is what we will be working on," he said. Emmanuel Macron "can not imagine passing to this point by force", in the eyes of the tribune.
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