Sunday November 18, 2018, Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis). Eighteen months after the election of Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who missed the second spherical in “Near 600,000 votes”participates within the first “national meetings of working-class neighborhoods”. To the actors of those neighborhoods, he proclaims: “I’m not afraid, I’m not ashamed to say it: what you see there is the new France. » That day, the leader of La France insoumise (LFI) just released a new political concept.
Since then, the slogan has gained momentum in the “rebellious” ideological software program. In 2024, the European marketing campaign, marked by the denunciation of the struggle in Gaza by the Franco-Palestinian jurist Rima Hassan, ends on this theme. “This new France is us, the variegated, the mixed ones who absolutely refuse the venom that allows them to stay in power – the division of the people by racism,” chimes Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at a gathering in Lyon, on June 6. On the night of the vote, he specified a geography, that of “large urban areas”.
This “new France”the “rebellious” chief intends to make use of it as a weapon within the battle in opposition to the far proper throughout the 2027 presidential election. “There are two visions, that of the right and the extreme right, which leads straight to clashes; Faced with this, we offer an optimistic, positive vision of history by saying that there is a peaceful outcome”assumes LFI MEP Younous Omarjee.
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