In view of the 2026 municipal elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon needs to depend on “a new France” | EUROtoday

One foot within the working -class neighborhoods, the opposite within the amphitheatres of universities. The time of a Toulouse weekend, rebellious France (LFI) has declined its technique for the subsequent electoral deadlines, particularly the municipal elections of 2026. Toulouse is, actually, one of many precedence targets of LFI. Friday, January 31, the amphitheater of Jean-Jaurès University, within the Mirail district, was, furthermore, far too small to welcome greater than 1,500 individuals who got here to hearken to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the LFI chief. Half needed to line up exterior, or observe the convention on an enormous display.
During his lengthy intervention, Jean-Luc Mélenchon took the chance to say no a speech he has developed for a number of years. Multiplying calls to youth “Who must not give in”he famous particularly: “Yes, Mr. Zemmour, yes, Mr. Bayrou, there is a” nice substitute “. That of one generation that comes after another and that will never look like the previous one. »» Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus responded to the racist and conspiratorial theory of the “nice substitute”, advocated in particular by Eric Zemmour, and to the words of the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, who estimated that there was a “Sensation of submersion” migration in France.
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