The former presidential candidate, who claims “not being a candidate for his succession”, calls on his friends to favor “emulation to competition”.
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“I am not a candidate for my succession” to represent France rebellious for the presidential election of 2027, announced Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 2 Thursday, while sparing the possibility that future “circumstances” decide otherwise.
While rebellious France crosses serious disruptions, between the Quatennens affair and the criticisms of part of its executives, who consider themselves excluded from the direction of the movement, its founder and leader seemed to take his Distances with the quarrels of his friends by calling them to agree to determine who is best able to succeed him.
“We are currently experiencing a huge growth crisis”, assumed Jean-Luc Mélenchon while contesting any form of “purge” within rebellious France. “I ask everyone to be reasonable, to share” responsibilities, he pleaded, conjuring his “not killing himself” and to favor “emulation to competition”.
As for his priority is to “finish intellectual work” and the installation of his foundation, he said. “I am not involved in the battle for my succession,” insisted from Guyana the one who was a candidate for the last three presidential elections, before recalling that “it is the circumstances that apply”.
Adrien Quatennens will have to “regain his stripes”
With regard to his runner-up Adrien Quatennens, Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes that he will have to “regain his stripes” but pleaded for “forgiveness”, approving his return to the National Assembly and the application of The sentence of four months of suspension of the parliamentary group of rebellious France.
Adrien Quatennens, very close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was sentenced on December 13 at the end of a prior recognition of guilt for “violence without incapacity committed by spouse” between October and December 2021, as well as for ” Regular and malicious sending of messages “to his wife between August and September 2022.
His group had then decided to exclude four months. But the long television interview he granted the day after his conviction caused strong reactions to a certain number of rebellious deputies and activists, some going so far as to ask for his final exclusion.
“Depending on the acts of Monsieur Quatennens, we will see if, after April 13, he returned to the group,” said Thursday on France 2 Alexis Corbière, one of the executives of rebellious France who considers that he was dismissed from the Direction of the movement.
The NUPPS will organize a “huge campaign” on pensions
On the pension reform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon summoned the memory of the campaign against the European Constitutional Treaty in 2005 to demonstrate “that we can reverse a trend”, believing that the previous pension reform in 2020 had it Also been “blocked”.
The government, which presented its project to postpone the retirement age at 64 on Tuesday, “will do everything it can to disgust people,” said the former former presidential candidate. And “do everything to motivate them and [put them in motion,” he warned, delighted to see in the union unit “a formidable support”.
Insisting on the decisive role of the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) which will lead a “huge campaign” against the reform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon promised that it would deliver the parliamentary battle despite a ” Social security budget rectification project which is a 49.3 disguised “.