Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s lethal headlong rush | EUROtoday

Lth weekend of February 28 and 1^er March, the president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, and the chief of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, will every maintain a gathering in Perpignan, the most important metropolis led by the Lepénistes. As a logo of the lethal face-to-face what these two teams need to set up a bit over a 12 months earlier than the presidential election. Like an disagreeable foretaste of the worst situation of 2027, the duel between these two blocs has swallowed up political life since February 12, the day of the deadly assault on neofascist activist Quentin Deranque, for which a number of members of the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group near LFI, are indicted.

This dramatic occasion reveals the true nature of Melenchonism. All week, the person of the novel left hastened to substantiate fears: his future presidential marketing campaign can be conspiratorial, brutal, will designate enemies with unstoppable verbal extra and won’t hesitate to make use of the worst resentments to flatter his base. Cowering in a posture of “them against us” and utilizing a everlasting double discourse on the information, the chief of LFI and his executives have neither disowned Raphaël Arnault, “rebellious” deputy from Vaucluse and founding father of the Young Guard, nor distanced themselves from the “anti-fascist” group. Thursday night, throughout a gathering in Lyon, Mr. Mélenchon thought of that its members had been victims of “trap”.

The similar night, in entrance of a laughing viewers, he questioned tips on how to pronounce Epstein’s identify, suggesting, in an announcement with anti-Semitic overtones, that they needed to cross off the American pedophile as a Russian, whereas hiding the truth that he was Jewish. After providing the names of a number of journalists to on-line vindictiveness, he promised to “sell by cut” THE “monopolies” within the press, denouncing the “elites”THE “croutons”THE “old beards”. A worrying want for authoritarianism.

Mr. Mélenchon, who has lengthy imagined himself because the successor to François Mitterrand, has chosen the trail of division and insult to embody the anti-system, by now activating springs which don’t and can’t belong to left-wing tradition. The outcome can solely be the demonization of his motion, which he encourages, however above the entire whole left, thus taken hostage, and which should draw the results as rapidly as doable, in any other case will probably be dragged down. A disgrace when the far proper can conquer energy in 2027.

Because this technique with Trumpist overtones performs into the palms of the RN, which solely desires of 1 factor: dealing with Mr. Mélenchon within the second spherical of the presidential election. In an unprecedented reversal of values, Jordan Bardella took benefit of this sequence to ask different groups to place in place a “sanitary cordon” round LFI. In quick, a reversal of the republican barrier beforehand imagined to stop the National Front from coming to energy.

The argument of the president of the RN was taken up by a big a part of the correct and by sure Macronists. However, based by Jean-Marie Le Pen with the assist of neofascist New Order executives, the FN, now RN, continues to be not impervious to the influences of the ultra-right. On Wednesday, the RN deputy for Drôme Lisette Pollet needed to hearth considered one of her assistants, a member of the favored Lyon group and offered in all of the media as a good friend of Quentin Deranque, after the revelation of his racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages.

In the long run, this example dangers taking part in a bit extra into the palms of the intense proper. A accountability which additionally falls to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.