During his meeting on Sunday in Lyon, the LFI candidate accused “the one who is in power, like the one who had preceded him” of having “triggered the war in Mali”. Words that outraged the left.
Anne Hidalgo denounced on Monday March 7 a “rewriting history“, after the declaration of the candidate LFI during his meeting Sunday in Lyon, affirming that the ex-president François Hollande had “started the war in Mali“.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon then said: “If you can’t decide, remember that you won’t decide anymore. Because whoever is in power, like the one who preceded him, started the war in Mali, and you haven’t heard of it again, after we voted once, for nine years“. In a tweet echoing his remarks, he later clarified: “Hollande started the war in Mali, and Macron continued it“.
‘Shameful and dangerous’
Several socialists were indignant at these assertions, like the candidate Anne Hidalgo: “Definitely not! Now Jean-Luc Mélenchon is rewriting history. More than ever, France needs the Republican and European left“, she tweeted Monday morning. For the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, “to confuse aggressors and attacked, to maintain confusionism and relativism, this is what Jean-Luc Mélenchon does, from Aleppo to Kiev, from Kiev to Bamako“. Judging on Twitter the words of the rebellious candidate “shameful and dangerous“, he asserts:”peace is not surrender to all those who trample basic human rights“.
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“When, by dint of turning around on international issues, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s compass spins empty“, also reacted PS Senator Patrick Kanner. “François Hollande did not “trigger” the war in Mali. He intervened at the request of the Malian State to curb terrorism. Stop the falsification of history“, he continued. For Stéphane Le Foll, Mayor of Le Mans, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s assertion is a “fake news“. “France with François Hollande intervened in Mali at the request of the Malian State to deal with terrorism. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is definitely not a useful vote, dear Ségolène Royal“, he quipped at the address of the former presidential candidate of 2007, who recently declared that Jean-Luc Mélenchon represented the useful vote on the left. “This man is ready for anything in this campaign. Even to rewrite history“, denounced the senator Rachid Temal.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager, Manuel Bompard, reacted to AFP: “The interpretation of the socialists is dishonest” because “What Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced was the fact that there was only one vote in nine years on the war in Mali”, “a real democratic question”.
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