The candidate for the presidential election, in favor of immunization but opposed to the obligation, denounced the responsibility of the State in the climate of distrust and welcomed the mobilized caregivers.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a campaign displacement for the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) in the presidential election. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has since Tuesday, December 14, traveling to Guadeloupe, where he had arrived in second place (24%) in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, behind Emmanuel Macron (30%).
He met, Wednesday, members of the Caregiver staff of Pointe-à-Pitre on strike against the vaccine obligation. Nearly one-third of Guadeloupean caregivers are threatened with suspension of their position by the end of the year, the time of the entry into force of the measure, offset from November 15 to December 31 after the climbing of tension who touched the island in November.
Opposite the vaccine and sanitary requirement but in favor of vaccination, Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched them, as a recognition for their mobilization: “Here it is Guadeloupe, people do not let meat ! “
” It’s not up to me to tell you what to do “
The LFI candidate wanted to show that he was in step with the distrust of many Guadeloupeans opposed to the government’s health policy. “Me who is experienced in public management, this is the first time I see such chaos, a refusal as stubborn and irresponsible” on the part of the authorities, he launched.
Accompanied on the hospital strike picket by the Chairman of the LFI MPs, Mathilde Panot, and by Manuel Bompard MEP, Mr. Mélenchon traded with many caregivers by taking “precautions” assumed. “It’s not up to me to tell you what to do, I know the precautions that it takes about mass movement”, has it thus advanced.
While stressing that he was vaccinated, Jean-Luc Mélenchon remained cautious in the exchanges, justifying the need to convince rather than compel and explaining the existence of a legitimate distrust: “we can the To deplore, but we do not administer people as things. “According to him,” the origin of the mistrust is chlordecone, the lie [of the authorities] is in the body of people. Convince is therefore more difficult , you do not have to go with chickening, “he exclaimed.
Emergency plan for water
In addition to this meeting, the candidate attacked the local media to the problem of drinking water, promising an emergency plan on this subject if he was elected President of the Republic next April. Wednesday night, he had to hold a meeting in the Gosier seaside resort. To strengthen his seat in the overseas, the candidate will visit Friday, Martinique.
On arrival on Tuesday Island, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also melted Emmanuel Macron, “threatened with stagnation” according to him, because of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (PFEU), beginner start January and strongly criticized by the opposition because of its superposition with the presidential election, as well as its competition with the candidate the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse. Opposed to the television interview of the head of state planned on Wednesday night on TF1 and LCI, the member added: “We will be bored to die.”
The LFI candidate is not the only claimant to the Elysee to move in overseas before the end of the year: Communist Fabien Roussel will go to the meeting from 16 to 21 December and Marine the Pen will fly on Thursday for Mayotte then the meeting.