From breaks in ruptures, from chess in semi-defaits, the leader of rebellious France has managed in thirteen years to take the lead of a coalition of left forces.
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This is a scene among others, Saturday May 7 in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at the platform, turns his head towards Olivier Faure to say that he allows himself to borrow an expression: “Emmanuel Macron has no mandate”. Behind these politeness, a dialogue returned between the ex-socialist and his family of origin, forced to recognize that his most dissenting shatter has succeeded.
Thirteen years ago, Jean-Luc Mélenchon left the Socialist Party (PS). His supporters, great followers of metaphors, keep repeating it: it’s storm time, and the wind can quickly turn. Who would have thought, in fact, that the PS would end up on the Mélenchonian line? Another adage: what matters is to be the last to stand when all the others collapse. You have to hold as for everyone to join. And it is on the basis of the results of the first round of the presidential election, where candidate Mélenchon crushed his competitors, that the new alliance is founded.
However, in 2008, the rupture seems final. In an unknown web series entitled Mr. Mélenchon, carried out by the young remote snow team (part of which will work later with the socialist tribune), we can see the political mechanisms that have enabled the main forces of the parliamentary left forces. – PS, Communist Party (PCF), Europe Ecologie -les Verts (EELV) and La France Insoumise (LFI) – grouped within the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts), with a view to the legislative elections of June. We see Mr. Mélenchon explaining his intuition: the left must refuse the centrist option and the half-measures.
“I turn the page”
This short documentary series follows the former professor at the PS Reims Congress. Then Senator of Essonne, Mr. Mélenchon is part of the motion of the left, led by the young Benoît Hamon. Pressing the victory of the party right, around the motion of the supporters of Ségolène Royal (this text will lead the vote of the members but Ségolène Royal will lose against Martine Aubry during the election of the first secretary of the PS, in November 2008 ), Jean-Luc Mélenchon wonders: “What am I going to do if I lose once again? I continue to pretend?”
A few hours later, the future presidential candidate is in his office in the Senate. Surrounded by his most faithful – notably Gabriel Amard and François Delapierre, who died in 2015 – he sees, frightened, falling the results. The decision is made: he leaves the party to which he joined thirty years earlier. “Those who have won are those favorable to an alliance with the center, he explains at the time. This is not with that that we will answer the left, to the popular energy that is available in this country. I turn the page. “
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