For his penultimate campaign meeting, the candidate of the People’s Union stigmatized Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen and wrald a highly tinged program of ecology.
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In Toulouse, Place du Capitol and under a stormy sky, Jean-Luc Mélenchon hammered for an hour thirty that “another world is possible”. As in 2012 and 2017, the candidate of the People’s Union started the last sprint of the presidential campaign by a stop in the pink city, “Land of Left and Spanish Republicans”.
In 1981 already, it was at the Stadium of Toulouse that François Mitterrand had concluded his campaign. In 2017, they were more than 50,000 on the filter meadow, on the edge of Garonne, to come and hear the candidate of France unsuitable. That year, in Toulouse, Mr. Mélenchon has grown in the first round Emmanuel Macron, with a score of 29.16% against 27.27%, far ahead of Marine Le Pen and 9.37%.
In the introduction of the afternoon, in front of about 20,000 people, Aurélie found, the former president of ATTAC, called to “beat Le Pen, transform the test and disqualify the extreme right”. Just after Mouss and Hakim, the former members of the Toulousain Zebda group tried to heat the place to the sound of “motivated!”. For his third candidacy, Mr. Mélenchon began his solemn speech: “We are lucky, we are lucky, French, to have a decisive election, even if in some respects, absurd, since it entrusts as much power to a Only man. But the opportunity arises, “he said. The opportunity to “reform this country of substance in a global crisis context”.
“The danger of a great eclipse of debate”
At first concentrating his attacks on the President of the Republic – “Me the time I went to the Arena [with reference to the Meeting of Emmanuel Macron, Saturday], for the concert of Pink Floyd, C was more filled and it was less hovering! “- The member of Bouches-du-Rhône has stigmatized a record of” rising unemployment, deindustrialization, lower purchasing power for more than 9 million poor, elimination of 17,000 hospital beds “.
The previous week, his campaign director, Manuel Bompard, native of Toulouse, entrusted to the world that “do not compare with the previous campaigns. We realize that one in three do not even know the Date of the first round, “he regretted. The goal is to mobilize, especially in the popular neighborhoods, and obviously beat the pen”.
These are on these points that the candidate insisted, before running out his program: “I heard the little music of resignation: there is the danger of a great eclipse of debate. I hope, what What about the opinions that people have, only for their own dignity, for the respect of themselves, they will not encourage a fatal company of lying and smoking. “
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