If he had seemed to say goodbye the day after the first round of the presidential election 2022, the leader of LFI remains ultimately omnipresent and continues to exercise his domination, within his party and the NUPS.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon had told everyone, the day after the legislative elections, not to worry. He had, he assured, enough “imagination” to find a new “combat posture” from where to continue the fight. The ex-presidential candidate, still leaving for Matignon, did not choose one: in the corridors of the National Assembly, on the television sets or at number 87 of the rue du Faubourg-Saint- Denis, headquarters of the independent workers’ party (Po), it is everywhere.
On July 12, he will fly to Latin America, in the invitation in particular of the new Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, but also in Mexico and Honduras. A few weeks away from Paris … but in no case a retirement. The “rebellious” who hoped to live without him were a reason: the founder of rebellious France (LFI) is still there. And they will have to answer questions for the place of the new ecological and social popular union (Nutpus).
Like this Tuesday, June 28, in front of the entrance to 101, rue de l’Université. The left alliance agrees on its candidates for the commissions. Small crowd at the exit. Journalists’ questions relate only to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Clémentine Autain looks up at the sky. “Leave it alone,” launches his former campaign director, Manuel Bompard. “Quiet”, does Jean-Luc Mélenchon aspire to be it? If he said, on June 19, the “need to reinforce himself”, the feeling of having “lived too much cut off from everything”, he also perpetuates his domination.
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Tuesday, July 5, from the headquarters of the former workers’ party, he speaks. The press conference has become a very short conference, most of the room being made up of its support. In the audience, LFI deputies. Adrien Quatennens and Clémence watched in the front row, François Ruffin a little further. The deputy of the day is Jérôme Legavre, elected from the 12
A week earlier, the Trotskyist party national office voted unanimously. Criticism vis-à-vis Fabien Roussel (not the “communists” saved from Gaulle and the regime “by participating in the government in 1945?), She welcomes the” proposals “of Jean-Luc Mélenchon . “Even within the framework of the National Assembly, [they] have a sense of respect for the 22 % of the first round and this desire for rupture. They therefore push the accentuation of the open crisis of institutions,” can -We read. At 87, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now at home.
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