Jean-Luc Mélenchon, visiting Bron on November 10, 2021 @Loris Lacroix
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The leader of France Insoumise, candidate for the next presidential election, came to support, Wednesday, November 9, the precarious inhabitants of Bron Parilly. During his trip, Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not fail to return to the announcements made by the Head of State this week.
Impossible to miss it. It is in a huge block of apartments in pale yellow tones, provided with small posters carefully stuck on the windows of the halls and stamped with the face of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the happy face, that the rebellious presidential candidate gave meet his flock and the few invited journalists. The leader of France Insoumise chose, Wednesday, November 10, as part of a day dedicated to the fight against fuel poverty, to meet the inhabitants of the priority district of Bron Parilly.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is at ease, smiling. Now a member of the Bouches-du-Rhône, he does not give the impression of being outside his land. He had collected 22% of the brilliant votes in the first round of the presidential elections in 2017 (he still came behind Emmanuel Macron who was ahead of him by 4 points). This year, the cards seem to have been reshuffled. In a metropolis of Lyon where the Greens have notably won Lyon and the Metropolis of Lyon in the municipal and metropolitan areas, while the Socialists have retained Villeurbanne and Vaulx-en-Velin, and the Communists Vénissieux.
“The country must seize that poverty is gaining ground non-stop”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his teams arrived in the midst of brash residents tense, concerned, by the conditions in which they are housed. Some of them only come to have heating, when others have the feeling of living outside, the insulation of their home leaves so much to be desired. ” We saw the state of the buildings, we saw people putting bottles with soil on their balconies so as not to let the cold pass, the deputy gets angry. My assessment is always the same: how did we get there? How can you build a highway with a building right on the edge? How could we have imagined balconies so remote that the house is in the dark? And all this while being cold and leaving people like that. The country must understand that poverty is gaining ground nonstop. “
The candidate goes on to visit buildings. Some locals see him ” one last hope “to see their situation change. Sabrina, mother of 3 children, has been renting a 79 m2 apartment in Lyon Métropole Habitat for 11 years. She lives in a home where the heating works poorly, where the sinkers are constantly blowing, and where the insulation is not effective. “ I knocked on all doors, town halls, agencies… Whenever an opportunity arose to be able to talk about it with an elected official, we did so. Behind, nothing, not a gesture, not even the will to make things happen. He came, that’s already it. It gives us confidence “, abounds the young woman.
Macron in the viewfinder
The walk did not only serve to bring comfort to locals living in precariousness, but also to scold Emmanuel Macron and his speech on Tuesday, November 9. ” There is no shortage of breath to begin with. The guy he tackles 30 different topics in 27 minutes and no one can answer him. He talks, he tells what he wants with a bunch of numbers completely wrong or arranged “, stormed Mélenchon. The latter took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, openly criticizing the announcement made by the Head of State about the construction of new nuclear reactors.” On nuclear power, it breaks all records. Putting mini power plants everywhere, I’m absolutely against it, it’s not serious, renaude the rebellious candidate. So that will be part of the presidential discussions. But to go and tell people that they will have nuclear electricity, frankly that is not their priority. “ Jean-Luc Mélenchon also denounced the posture of ” candidate “adopted by Macron during his speech, stressing that the measures announced would only be achievable in the event of re-election.”He speaks like a candidate, because it can’t be done in two weeks “.
“The excursion” ended in front of the famous UC1 building bar, located along the Laurent Bonnevay ring road, below which curious people crowd to take a photo with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the crowd, a man points to the huge building being demolished and calls out to the candidate: ” Mr. Mélenchon, when you are elected, we will not have to destroy any more like this one, it is our Greek temple to us! ».
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