To his return, the candidate of France’s rebellious heart was in a meeting “immersive” shaped big show. An innovation that allows him to impose his agenda.
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“The month of January in a campaign, it’s like all over again.” Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Nantes, Saturday, Jan. 15, in rehearsal for his “immersive” rally. “Indeed in the new campaign, there is none, other than that and Mrs Taubira,” he said, while the former justice minister has declared his candidacy. rally side, this “world first”, vaunted by his team for weeks, complicates the life of the candidate of the rebellious France (BIA) in the presidential election. Not when he can so easily take digression oratorical detours, follow the pace of the staging, shortening the river speech, tweaking the sequences, rather like an actor.
Sunday arrives. This is his big launch, a “meeting of recovery” after the holiday break, said his campaign manager Bompard manual. Since its distant declaration of candidacy in November 2020, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to be “master of time” and try to keep the advantage related to his departure first. “By choosing the day I drove off, we become the master of others”, he explained Saturday. This meeting is an immersive tool in this strategy. A gadget? Perhaps, but its formal success feeds comparisons to very small sizes made by its competitors left and beyond.
In a room of 3000 people, 3500 by tightening a bit, each of the walls is entirely lined with video projections, careful set design starts. It begins conventionally, with the announcement of some political rallies. The Communist deputy for Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel announcement video: “We must be in ranks behind the candidate who is best placed to qualify for the second round.” The mayor Generation · s Trappes (Yvelines), Ali Rabeh, did the same in person called to “cut to pieces the speech that requires the union to union.” Then the opera begins, there is even a “libretto”. MP “rebellious” Clémentine Autain reads the words of the novelist Annie Ernaux, the anthem of the women’s liberation movement sound, with lyrics of “yellow jackets”, events and selected pieces of text Jean Jaurès and the . writer Edouard Glissant
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon arrives, fade to black, the stars light up. To talk about space and denuclearization, it is moonlight. Or Earthshine, it depends on which side you sit in the virtual cube that surrounds it. “The blue planet with this thin film that surrounds the nest of humanity above all must be protected. Look at him, he is only one ecosystem that allows life of human beings, he starts. “there is the Station [space] international, there is a satellite, there is the Moon. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon guide the audience in a head to head with the planet. Megalo but effective to anchor the candidate in ecology.
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