Like most of my compatriots, I used to be glued to my tv display as quickly because the outcomes of the primary spherical of the legislative elections had been introduced on Sunday, June 30. Systematically altering channels, I listened to the journalists’ feedback, I noticed the thrill of the politicians who had been invited by the assorted editorial workplaces, some trying glum, others rejoicing within the outcomes obtained.
Some exchanges had been well mannered, others far more aggressive. However, the units are one factor and reside broadcasts are one other. Precedence is given to reside broadcasts on information channels, once you minimize off a visitor and immediately you see Édouard Philippe on the display, Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, Gabriel Attal or Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It could be essential to dissect the attitudes, the glad, critical or crestfallen faces of every of them.
However one scene intrigued me greater than others. As a result of it is among the robust photos of this election night time. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was fast to react, earlier than the opposite main figures of the New Widespread Entrance did. I might even dare to say, instead of others, as if to claim slightly extra his grip on the New Widespread Entrance.
Mélenchon reads his textual content and solemnly proclaims that “Nowhere will we enable the RN to win and that’s the reason within the occasion that it comes out on prime and we’re solely in third place, we’re withdrawing our candidacy ». « In all circumstances, wherever and in no matter case, our instruction is easy, direct and clear, not one vote, not yet one more seat for the RN”proclaims the chief of the Insoumis. However who authorizes him to react like this? Does he need to be the spokesperson for your complete left, the conductor, the one who dictates the directions and the road to observe?
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To Mélenchon’s proper stands the very media-friendly Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise. Now, this Mélenchon loyalist has simply been re-elected as an LFI deputy with greater than 67% of the vote. To his left, instead of Manon Aubry or Mathilde Panot, current on the TF1 set, stands the Franco-Syrian lawyer of Palestinian origin, Rima Hassan, who not too long ago joined the Insoumis. She seems coated in a keffiyeh, this piece of material with black and white checks, which has a specific that means, since it’s the emblem par excellence of the Palestinian trigger, all through the world.
But this extremely symbolic accent is worn by many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Paris and different cities, alongside numerous Palestinian flags.
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What’s the MEP doing on the platform, when she has no accountability inside LFI?
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What’s the MEP doing on the platform, when she has no accountability inside LFI?
Allow us to first agree that she wouldn’t be there if Jean-Luc Mélenchon had not insisted that she be there. Nevertheless, Mélenchon orchestrates his political communication notably and subtly.
Inside LFI, which isn’t strictly talking a political social gathering, however a motion with out members, he dictates his circumstances, units the scene, chooses the technique, raises the tone and/or purges a few of his former companions. Nevertheless, Rima Hassan was his key determine throughout the European elections. For the reason that Palestinian trigger was on the coronary heart of the LFI marketing campaign, Rima Hassan’s possible perform was to convey collectively a part of the French Muslim citizens and to persuade younger urbanites.
Moreover, Rima Hassan is Mélenchon’s darling and it does not matter that she is an activist, and a somewhat violent one at that. Quite the opposite, this can be a level that should work in her favor. It does not matter the accusations that fly, the suspicions of anti-Semitism of which she is accused and the shameless lies that she peddles on her X account. It’s maybe not, in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s eyes, any much less critical, or extra critical than the suspicions of anti-Semitism of which he’s accused personally and/or LFI. Mélenchon even appears to accommodate an atmospheric anti-Semitism.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has extra to lose from an NFP victory and extra to achieve from an RN victory
Within the presence of Rima Hassan, there may be maybe one other that means. Undoubtedly, for the average voters of the NFP and the social democrats of which I’m one, she is extra of a deterrent than the rest. As a result of she expresses a radicalism that goes towards the grain of a left that want to be accountable. She is a deterrent for individuals who consider that she provokes unbelievable stress in French society by eager to import passions and anger and by arousing hysteria round this distant battle.
Exhibiting it additionally means reminding us that, deep down, Mélenchon is the architect of one other technique. If he isn’t Prime Minister, how does this election actually concern him? Him, who solely thinks concerning the 2027 presidential election? Deep down, it appears to me that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has extra to lose from a victory for the NFP and extra to achieve from a victory for the RN, which might enable him to determine himself as its principal opponent and mobilize the troops in a confrontation that might happen in our streets. And that’s Mélenchon’s complete technique: to not make the left win.
