Go to the front to defend your boss. The words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to call for the mobilization on October 16 when referring to the French Revolution may displease part of the left, the rebels defend them.
“There, Jean-Luc, you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to make yourself heard. There is no longer a king or queen. We will not have pikes or pitchforks,” said Olivier Faure, the head of the Socialists. and an ally of La France insoumise, Thursday night on his Twitter account.
The response aims to reformulate the head of La France insoumise and the terms chosen to defend his “march against the high cost of living”.
“On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched in Versailles against the cost of living. The king, queen, and dauphin were forcibly brought to Paris under popular control. Do it better on October 16”, launched the former presidential candidate. in the social network.
Debate or tension?
Environmentalists have also distanced themselves. Sandrine Rousseau calls, from the parliamentary days of her movement, to “walk”, “scream”, grumble”, “without cutting heads” this Friday.
But the rebel lieutenants are themselves connections to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It must be said that the October 16 demonstration was launched on his initiative in July.
“I don’t see any discomfort in our ranks. I just see that this position is being debated,” LFI MP Caroline Fiat told BFMTV.com.
“The reference to 1789 is very good”
This march was designed with two objectives: to call on the government to take far-reaching measures against rising prices -such as freezing electricity bills- but also to show muscle against the executive who advances on explosive issues such as raising the retirement age to 65.
“The reference to 1789 is very good in the background because we are calling for a citizen revolution. We want to launch a spark of social mobilization without shovels or pitchforks and break the media sound barrier,” replies the deputy Antoine Léaument, very close to the boss. of the movement.
It is that the maneuver also has the advantage of occupying the media field, after a very complicated back-to-school sequence for the rebels, parasitized by the domestic violence case of Adrien Quatennens. What they want to try is to regain control of the social field.
“Establish a balance of power in the street”
“We are not calling to cut off anyone’s head but to establish a balance of power in the street. The government only understands that. Faced with the social violence that exists and that will increase, it is one of our responses”, he also advances. the rebel deputy of LFI, Alma Dufour.
Another objective: to re-mark its difference with the National Association, which intends to vote on the Government’s texts “if they are good for the French.”
“We are in total opposition to Marine Le Pen who voted toe-to-toe with Renaissance for the destruction of unemployment insurance (the National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a bill changing the compensation rules for claimants Editor’s Note). We say that not with all our forces to everything that the government proposes”, the rebel deputy Hadrien Clouet explained to us last Tuesday.
“Let’s walk shoulder to shoulder”
Criticism from some should not stop environmentalists, socialists and communists – who have long been hesitant to participate – from all marching together on October 16.
Which pushes Jean-Luc Mélenchon to respond to his criticism.
“Dear friends of Nupes, the women’s march of 1789 did not cut off heads or guillotined anyone. Zero deaths. The brutalization of social life is the cost of living and climate inaction. The elbow,” he defended on Twitter this Friday.
Source: BFM TV
