Toulouse: grimace soup at the LFI office which calls for “blocking the far right”
Cold shower for the militants of rebellious France gathered, Sunday April 10, at the Winger bar in Toulouse after the announcement of the results of the first round of the presidential election 2022.
It was grimace soup, this Sunday, April 10 around 8 p.m., at the Winger bar, at 68 rue Bayard in Toulouse, crowded and HQ of the electoral office of the Popular Union and its support for the candidate of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The beer is flowing and customers have their eyes riveted on the television screen which is about to reveal the faces of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in the lead for the second round of the presidential election. A young man had joined his hands in prayer while awaiting the verdict.
” It’s unbelievable… “
A “Shit! » split the room where hands hold cellphones in the air which film, then follow « houhous! and a round of applause. Mélenchon at 21.2% is better than five years ago.
“It’s unbelievable, plus he did better than in 2017, even the polls hadn’t predicted it,” slips an activist to reassure himself. In front of the bar outside, a fifty-year-old gets carried away on the phone: “I’m not going to vote for the second round, that’s for sure not…”
For LFI activists, who are calling for a “dam to the far right”, it’s a cold shower, “despite a fabulous campaign that has been carried out”, laments the LFI leader of the second constituency of the Haute-Garonne Anne Stambach-Terrenoir.
“The mobilization of young people”
“The mobilization of everyone, activists on the ground, in Toulouse and everywhere in France, with intellectuals, scientists, artists, we had rarely seen that at this point. I also salute the mobilization of young people that we saw a lot in the polling stations. I think they understood the ecological issue well. »
Moreover, Arthur, a student at Jean Jaurès University (Mirail) says he is “very disappointed”. “We believed in it, I got involved, whereas before I was an abstentionist, I told myself that the change was not made through the ballot box. It was the first time that I voted, when we saw the dynamics, the program, it was tempting. There, we find ourselves with the far right and the same president who has done nothing for young people and the planet. »