Roubaix, laboratory of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s electoral technique | EUROtoday

This Saturday, January 31 in Roubaix, the Watremez room has the texture of a presidential marketing campaign. Less than two months earlier than the municipal election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon got here to assist his companion, David Guiraud, candidate for mayor and the best probability of victory for the La France Insoumise (LFI) motion in a metropolis of practically 100,000 inhabitants. An difficulty of nationwide significance: if profitable, the previous socialist senator hopes that the previous staff’ metropolis can have a “a force of contagion”. Understand: for the 2027 presidential election.

Gaza and its “shameful genocide”secularism, Islam, and the combat in opposition to racism: at a time when Muslims are victims of huge stigmatization on the fitting of the political spectrum, the “rebellious” chief delivered a speech centered on themes that had been each nationwide and calibrated for the viewers. In Roubaix, the poorest metropolis in France, in keeping with INSEE, a big a part of the inhabitants comes from North African immigration. “When you cast a “rebellious” poll, you forged a poll in opposition to racism, in opposition to Islamophobia, for the Republic, for freedom of conscience”, proclaimed the chief of LFI.

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