The boss of the PS Olivier Faure, ally of La France insoumise (LFI) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, reproached the latter Thursday evening for a “provocation” in a tweet evoking the French Revolution and devoted to the “march” of October 16 whose the organization is common to them.
“There Jean Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder, ”wrote the deputy for Seine-et-Marne in response to the message sent a few hours earlier by the former LFI presidential candidate. .
“On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the cost of living. They bring back the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16, ”wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
On October 6, 1789, in the first months of the French Revolution, a women’s march from Paris to the Palace of Versailles resulted in the forced return of King Louis XVI and his family to the capital.
LFI, the PS, the ecologists of EELV and the Communist Party (PCF), i.e. the four components of the Nupes electoral alliance, call together to a “march” on October 16 in Paris “against the high cost of living and climate inaction”.
“We do not cut heads”, tackle Sandrine Rousseau
“We don’t cut off heads, we walk, we groan, we shout, we dance, we’re happy too, on the other hand, we don’t cut off heads”, also reacted on Friday Sandrine Rousseau. The Green MP participated in Strasbourg in the parliamentary days of environmental leaders, some of whom expressed their disagreement with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s controversial tweet.
“I think that the brutalization at this point of the political debate, in the end, it only serves Marine Le Pen, it does not serve to advance our proposals”, estimated for his part the former Green candidate for the presidential election. , Yannick Jadot, on his arrival Friday at the meeting of senators, deputies and European deputies ecologists. “It builds mistrust with politics, we are not in a situation where we have to put the head of our leaders on a pike,” he continued, considering that the tweet of the Insoumis leader belonged to a “lexical register” of its own.
“I do not share what he says, it is a mistake, it is rather necessary to mobilize people positively”, added the ecologist deputy Sabrina Sebaihi. “It’s pure Jean-Luc Mélenchon. What is certain is that we are going to carry out a pacifist mobilization”, also said his colleague Sandra Regol.