Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot warn against Geopolitical Speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and try to arrogate the monopoly of the responsibility on the left.
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This is another collateral damage of the Ukrainian crisis. Minimal with the movements in the field. The French left has once again found material to split into two camps. Since Tuesday, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo have indeed a fire nourished with regard to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accusing him of indulgence vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin. At a time when the candidate of the People’s Union the Advance in the polls, the latter apply to present him as a dangerous man. And to cultivate their defender stature of federalism and fundamental freedoms for one, a European woman and fervent for the other.
All three agree, however, to denounce the failure of a certain “diplomacy of the image” of Emmanuel Macron, its successive stages during the five-year, of the handshake at Donald Trump At Menton against Erdogan to finish with this mediation disavowed by Vladimir Putin.
But the will of diplomacy “not aligned” by Mr Mélenchon, his extreme mistrust vis-à-vis the United States, distinguishes it. Even make a “proravice” for its competitors. Since Tuesday, the candidate has been developing a speech in two stages. Admitting on one side, that Russia’s recognition of two separatist republics of Donbass, constitutes a “violation of the territorial entirety of Ukraine”, judged “inadmissible”. Explain, then, that “the Russians presumably said that NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] would come to Ukraine, and that it was easier to absorb now, as long as there is No NATO, that tomorrow, when there will be NATO “. Mr. Mélenchon refutes the effectiveness of sanctions, even if it should be “there must be”, and calls for a “border conference” within the framework of the OSCE (Europe , United States, Russia, Central Asia).
“Some relativism on fundamental freedoms”
This discourse combining condemnation and explanation lends the side to attacks. Asked about it, Yannick Jadot launched Tuesday in front of the Russian embassy in Paris:
“Some are wrong with analysis, hide behind some relativism on fundamental freedoms and democracy, dangerous in this period.”
Anne Hidalgo, favorable to a European security and defense policy and a political dialogue between the European Union and Russia has further dramatized these differences. In a “solemn declaration” Wednesday, she assimilated Mr. Mélenchon to the two candidates of the far right. “Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, overthrow the roles and make the accomplices of aggressive nationalists and imperialists. We must denounce these speeches,” she said.
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