“I’m ready. I’m running for office, ”said the 69-year-old deputy to the TF1 television station, however, conditioning his candidacy to a“ popular investment ”in order to collect 150,000 signatures on the Internet to run against the current president, Emmanuel Macron.
Underlining the call for the “end of the presidential monarchy”, Mélenchon also advocates the convocation of a constituent assembly in order to abandon the current political regime, defined in the Fifth Republic established by Charles de Gaulle, in 1958, and the move to a new organization of the institutions.
“I have a program, a team ready to govern. 2022 is the time for change. Society is at a dead end, ”said the leader of the France Insubmissa party, who started in the 1970s as a Socialist Party councilor, then served as a senator and deputy minister of Education until he left the Socialists in 2008 to create a new one. left on your left.
In 2012, at the head of the Left Front, a coalition of parties, he was a candidate for the presidential elections and was fourth in the first round, with 11.1% of the votes.
In 2017, with the movement he had just founded, França Insubmissa won 19.6% of the votes, although he also failed to reach the second round of the presidential elections.
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