The leader of rebellious France (LFI) called on Thursday to “do better” in ten days than on October 5 and 6, 1789, when women had mobilized to bring back to Paris the king and the queen installed in Versailles.
Le Monde with AFP
Ten days of march against dear life and climate inaction, organized by rebellious France (LFI), the Socialist Party (PS) and Europe Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) in Paris on October 16, the Last call for the mobilization of Jean-Luc Mélenchon arouses strong reactions, both on the government and in his own camp. “On October 5 and 6, 1789 Women walk on Versailles against expensive life, wrote on Twitter , Thursday, October 6, the leader of LFI. They bring back the king, the queen and the dolphin of force in Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16.”
A revolutionary parallel with the implicit too violent to the taste of his opponents as a part of the left. Among the first to react, Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), ally of LFI within the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), quickly regretted, on the same social network, the “provocation” of the former presidential candidate. “There, Jean-Luc, you can do better. (…) There is no more king nor queen. We will have neither spike nor fork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and his strength is his message: the Justice against social disorder “, tweeted the deputy of Seine- Et-Marne .
Launched by M. Mélenchon and LFI, the Parisian march of October 16, highlight of the start of the left, will mix all the components of the Nutples – the French Communist Party having joined the call, Thursday – and other political or associative organizations. Among employees’ trade union organizations, distrust is still dominating. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) expressed doubts as soon as the event was announced and its secretary general, Philippe Martinez, confirmed on September 22 that the organization would not participate.
An “call for violence”, according to the government
On the other side of the political spectrum, the reference to the revolutionary days of October 5 and 6, 1789 did not fail to rumble. “This is not the first time that he has exceeded the terminals, he has been in excess all the time”, regretted Friday on BFM-TV/RMC Le Porte -Government sharing, Olivier Véran , denouncing a “call for violence” several times. “The right to demonstrate is constitutional, we respect it, it is accompanied, but the masked or direct or indirect calls to a form of social violence, it is irresponsible, even more from a political official”, A insisted the former Minister of Health.
Among the other members of the government or the majority, the Minister responsible for relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, has made “factious remarks that are serious”. “I believe that it is not credible to continue to be a politician because he is not responsible and worthy in his words”, estimated On Public Senate the president of the Renaissance group at the Palais-Bourbon, Aurore Bergé , who does not “understand why they do not arrive within rebellious France to break definitively with these methods and with him”.
