Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the guest of the program Questions Politiques (France Inter and France Info TV) on Sunday May 8, 2022.
The candidate for the post of Prime Minister first analyzed the presidential election. He exposed the reorganization of the political landscape in 3 blocks and the election of a President by default. Then, he explained the importance of the legislative elections as a 3rd round to elect a majority of deputies from the New People’s Union to the Assembly and apply a program of rupture.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon insisted on the need for a policy of concrete radicalism in the service of the general interest and the common good in order to face the ecological and social emergencies of our time. He notably mentioned the water crisis. The candidate for the post of Prime Minister evoked his vision of ecology and his horizon: the harmony of human beings among themselves and with nature.
Then, the candidate for the post of Prime Minister affirmed that the program of the New Popular Union will be applied, including by disobeying what, in the European treaties, prevents it from doing so.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon hammered home the historic character of the unique general agreement on a national scale that constitutes the New People’s Union.
The candidate for the post of Prime Minister said that in the event of cohabitation, it is the policy of the Prime Minister, which applies. Jean-Luc Mélenchon highlighted two social measures contained in the program of the New People’s Union: retirement at age 60 and 40 annuities without discount on the one hand, and the calling of new compulsory annual negotiations to increase wages on the other. go.
Finally, in terms of international politics, he affirmed that if he is Prime Minister, France will speak and act with one voice. With regard to Ukraine, he again denounced the aggression committed by Russia and the nuclear threats it uttered. He insisted on the need to send blue helmets to protect nuclear power stations.
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