” Le feeling of having been manipulated. The day after a stormy debate with Éric Zemmour, in Facing Baba by Cyril Hanouna on C8, Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to have a bitter taste in his mouth. The LFI presidential candidate reacted on his official website, explaining that he felt a clear imbalance between his speaking time and that of his evening opponent. He draws a major lesson from this: “Never again accept any issue without a serious guarantee of balance. »
Jean-Luc Mélenchon felt aggrieved Thursday evening. And when Gérald Darmanin reacted to his remarks about the police on Friday morning, he couldn’t help but write a post on his site: “Making a rude racist a political subject to whom we serve an hour of TV as a gift, to see a Minister of the Interior flatter a corporatism of omerta, all that is a lot. »
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Gérald Darmanin indeed denounced in a tweet “the hateful and systematic attacks” of the far left candidate, who declared in Facing Baba do not like “this violent police, this police who shot thirty-two people without a single culprit, this police who killed a woman who was on the fourth floor in Marseilles, this police who do what they wants when she wants.
The hateful and systematic attacks of @JLMelenchon against the women and men of the people who are the police, far from being political anecdotes, are in fact ad hominem attacks against the legitimate authority of the Republic.
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 28, 2022
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “proud” of his intervention
Faced with Éric Zemmour, whom he had already faced in debate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon raised his voice more than once, especially on the question of disability. “You have something against the handicapped, I noticed. […] You should think and use the thing you have under the hair you have left. It’s called a brain, that’s what it’s for, ”he even said.
Friday morning, once the emotion of the debate had subsided, the LFI candidate confided that he was “proud to have made his way for four hours without ever weakening”. The length of the debate is also a point of contention. Originally, Cyril Hanouna had sold a two-hour program to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He stayed on air for twice the expected time.