The demonstration organized on Sunday in Paris by the coalition of the Nuts tried to unite social disputes arising from the fuel crisis and wage demands.
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A compact, enthusiastic crowd, lids in mess, slogans calling for “more social justice” and “turning all them all”, “march against dear life and climate inaction” of the new popular union Ecological and social (Nuts), which stretched on Sunday October 16 from nation to Bastille in Paris, has given back balm to the heart of the left parties.
Unscreening, the real star of this day was Jean-Luc Mélenchon, even if La France Insoumise (LFI) had done everything to make this walk as ecumenical as possible. “It is the great conjunction, it is we who start it with this march which is an immense success,” welcomed the septuagenarian, who arrived at the arms of the Nobel Prize in Literature Annie Ernaux, and expressed for a Truck acting as a rolling platform in the middle of the crowd, on which succeeded all afternoon political personalities, unions and associations. “France shows at this moment that it is not resigned, that it does not lower the eyes, that it is not domesticated,” chanted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, calling for “the construction of a New Popular Front which will exercise power in the country when the time comes “.
mentioned in July, this day of demonstration, whose success was far from being ensured due to the absence of large union centers, benefits from an alignment of unexpected planets , re -inflated by the fuel crisis, growls on purchasing power, and the government’s threat to brandish the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution to go into force on the budget. In the end, the march, which has not escaped at certain times of tension with the police on the sidelines of the parade, would have attracted 140,000 people according to its organizers – much more than the 100,000 gathered on March 20 by Jean -Luc Mélenchon in a comparable day – but only 30,000 people according to the police. The procession brought together beyond left-wing activists and the Nuts, with also students, civil servants, hospital staff, teachers, trade unionists, and “yellow vests”.
Besides Jean-Luc Mélenchon, all the figures of the Alliance, such as Alexis Corbière or Clémentine Autain for LFI, Olivier Faure for the Socialists, Cyrielle Chatelain or Sandrine Rousseau for environmentalists, Ian Brossat for the Communists, walked together The approximately 2.1 kilometers of the route. All hope that this march closed the parenthesis of the Quatennens and Bayou affairs. Large absent from the day, the communist leader, Fabien Roussel, with knives drawn with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the former presidential candidate Yannick Jadot. So that none of the Nutian partners feel injured, the speech time of the LFI leader has been the subject of discussions this week. “I had said that it should not be the march of this or that obedience,” confirms the environmentalist Hélène Hardy.
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