In defense meetings, the Leader of LFI urged his supporters to action in a context of rule dominion, and attempted to install his candidacy in the cultural landscape using a “Parliament of Campaign “.
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There are darker activist Sundays than others. This Sunday, December 5, the 3,000 people who participated in Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s meeting experienced it. Wait in a driving rain, on the austere esplanade of defense concrete, the opening of the doors. Lower the escalators of this place that resonates so little in the imaginary on the left. Once entered the room, shout “resistance, resistance”, because Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not like us to scient his name but knowing also that only a few kilometers, Eric Zemmour held his first candidate meeting, in a Room potentially seven times larger.
Everything contributes this Sunday to a diffuse anxiety, despite the optimistic soundtrack and the parterre of public figures come to grow the ranks of the “campaign parliament” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Even Aurélie found, ancient Attac leader and now president of this instance, concedes him, before entering the scene: “It’s true, it’s not the clearest time, it’s not here that It is the easiest way in view of the right-of-way hold and the hard right “, a difficulty that makes it all the more” urgent “political commitment to the side of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and of his program.
Sunday afternoon, the member of Bouches-du-Rhône therefore challenges the left constituents. Their promises of better days, larger rooms – 1,500 people could not have failed in place, according to France unsuitable (LFI) – but urges them to activate itself to be elected. Or rather his program, because it is in these terms that the victory is officially announced. On March 20, outdoors, as in 2012 and 2017, the candidate promises a great gathering, for “the birthday of the glorious insurrection of the municipality of Paris”. And a next meeting on January 10th. As in wirring a winter of campaign that is already complicated by an umpteenth vague of Covid-19 which makes a mask by a majority of the activists present. “After so many humiliations, sometimes lost fighting, but still raising the head, always arranged in combat (…) We come to give back to the land of courage while it is immersed in the darkness of absurd debates for business. Religion or skin color “, he begins. “No France is not the extreme right, France is social security, it is public health, it is emancipation, school, research is the sharing . “
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