In Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on conquered ground, directs his attacks against Emmanuel Macron
In the Mermoz room, overwhelmed by the heat, Jean-Luc Mélenchon came, Tuesday June 14 at the end of the afternoon, to shoot his arrows and his mockery against Emmanuel Macron and his Rennaissance party – “Oh, because they were dead? », he immediately launched. In front of around 1,300 people inside, and 300 on the outside steps, the leader of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) is evolving almost into a conquered country in Toulouse.
The leader of the left-wing coalition has made a habit of coming to this city between the two rounds of each exam. In 2017, there were more than 50,000 on the Filtres meadow, on the banks of the Garonne, to come and listen to it. The leader of the “rebellious” achieves significant scores in Toulouse: nearly 37% in the first round of the presidential election this year. For this election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has another reason to come to Toulouse: the result in the first round of the ten candidates invested by Nupes, who qualified in the second round in all the constituencies of Haute-Garonne.
Black suit and red tie, he launched his first spades, sometimes with the accents of a Coluche, in the direction of the President of the Republic, who, “when your boat sinks, take the plane”, in reference to the departure of Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday, June 14, for Romania and Moldova. In the front row, despite the notable absence of the socialist president of the region, Carole Delga, all the gathered left was there, come to demonstrate the performance of the Nupes, in the lead in eight of the ten constituencies of the department. Enough to “achieve a grand slam or a strike”, according to Frédéric Borras, the departmental head of the new movement. In 2017, the left had only retained one seat in a land which is nevertheless often won electorally, and which is also the first socialist federation in France.
“We know where we are going”
After alerting to “the impossible projections for the second round”, the only speaker of the evening continued on the proposals of the Nupes, about 640 in total, without omitting to scratch Emmanuel Macron“the first liar”, and to reiterate his desire to become Prime Minister. Stigmatizing “neoliberalism that has gone bankrupt” and warning of “chaos that will come from climate change”, he drew up a state of the world to which the Nupes brings the “the most credible, quantified, appropriate responses”. “I’m not saying we’re perfect, but at least we know where we’re going. For us, he is the most precious human being”he launched.
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