Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of the Union Populaire was in a meeting in front of 8,000 people at the Parc des Expositions Sud Arena in Montpellier on February 13, 2022.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, presidential candidate spoke after many actors and activists such as Didier Maïsto former boss of Sud Radio, committed to democracy; Lazare Razkallah, CGT trade unionist from the TUI, Alma Dufour, environmental activist sentenced for having taken down a portrait of Macron; Valérie Labatut, engaged alongside Anthony Smith for a real labor inspection; Farida Chikh, nurse also victim of police violence; Claire Lejeune, activist for ecological and social rights; Aurélie Trouvé, ex-spokesperson for Attac and president of the Parliament of the Popular Union; Bérenger Cernon, railway worker hired for public transport and CGT trade unionist.
The candidate specified that his team had been working for more than a month. They chained rallies and public meetings.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated his main function, that of presenting piece by piece the whole program « L’Avenir en commun ». Provide information on the spirit in which the program is built, inform on the objectives and especially the measures it contains.
For the Popular Union candidate, the campaign is part of a whole, and is only the beginning of a new era in which the population will participate. For him, the population will not come to support the government but will participate in the political battle and the balance of power that will be necessary to create.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to the beginning of neo-liberalism in the 90s. The candidate recalls the invasion in Iraq, the economic regime, specifying that this neo-liberalism, this excessive capitalism swept over the whole world. As a result, public services are destroyed or even non-existent, inequalities are accentuated. It was a question in those years of founding a new order of the world. All this has led to a crisis of human civilization, people’s lives, their consumption has changed. To this day, many of them cannot live decently.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon specifies that « This regime has created chaos, it cannot stop ».
Jean-Luc Mélenchon recalls the demonstrations to push back the pension reform in 1995, in 1998, the French people with a ballot established the 35 hours; while in Europe there was a rise in populism.
The candidate of the « Popular Union » states that « Political force was destroyed in favor of populist ».
Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke of the France of Jean-Jaurès, Jean Jaurès said « France, the Republic to the end ». He recalled the rebellions, the demonstrations, the demonstrations of the yellow vests despised, insulted, booed and called all names. Jean-Luc Mélenchon appeals to the resistance and the rebellious spirit that characterizes the French.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, inequalities must be reduced. He returns to the social crisis of considerable magnitude, to the terrible imbalance between those who have everything and those who have nothing.
The candidate denounced the 236 billion euros earned by French billionaires during the pandemic. The 27 people in the world have as much as half of humanity, those have nothing at all.
He also returned to gray gold, the money made at the expense of our elders in the EPHAD. Jean-Luc Mélenchon highlighted the rich who benefited from the abolition of the ISF, the implementation of the Flat Tax. This is why the candidate named Emmanuel Macron « President of the Rich ».
The People’s Union candidate proposes a sovereign France and wants out of NATO, he does not want France to be « the wagon of NATO », free, non-aligned.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon returns to the geopolitical crisis and the threat of war between Ukraine and Russia. The candidate of the Popular Union specifies that everywhere in the world, borders are cracking and for the first time, the collapse of the North American Empire is becoming clearer.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon underlines the urgency of the climate situation, « there is a climate emergency, and it is as if nothing is happening ». The candidate took the climate situation seriously. He returns to the fact that half of humanity will find themselves in a situation of water stress. As a result, many migrations will take place, as has already been noticed for a few years. Even our country is affected.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the era of the New World has arrived. France must open a new path, through its choices of government, through the choices of its Assembly. Since it is militarily independent or will become completely independent, it can open this path and cause the « gathering effect ». The candidate informed that he would put the means in public services, health, education (…).
The Popular Union candidate announced that he would study the needs and adapt the necessary means. He added that he would grant 1,063 euros per month for young university and vocational education students to continue their studies in good conditions.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not want new EPRs which will not work and whose waste we do not know how to treat.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon ended his meeting by specifying that it was possible to vote in 2 months for his program with the increase of the SMC to 1,400 euros, the blocking of the prices of basic necessities and the transition to retirement at 60 years. For him, there is no point in making people work beyond a certain age, they are tired, even sick and will automatically cost social security. Therefore, it is better to have people who are happy to enjoy their lives. A life is not made of work alone.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Emmanuel Macron plans even fewer unemployment benefits, a retirement at 64…!
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