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The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Friday designated the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, on the offensive in this return, as the main adversary within the presidential camp as a “common candidate” of “the junction of the right with the extreme right”.
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Friday designated the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, on the offensive in this return, as the main adversary within the presidential camp as a “common candidate” of “the junction of the right with the extreme right”.
“It is he whom we will have to face, because it is he who carries the speech of the junction”, launched the former presidential candidate during the summer universities of his movement in the Drôme, when the restless minister seems to be positioning himself for the succession of Emmanuel Macron in 2027. “The others will end up (…) as accompanied baggage”, he added.
“Medina is our friend, he is not racist”
“This time we know who the common candidate is,” he said. “The common candidate of the ideological space represented by the French organization, the junction of the right with the extreme right, is Mr. Darmanin”, he insisted, in a reference to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, cantor of “illiberal” values that his Western partners regularly accuse of authoritarian drift.
During his speech, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also responded to the controversy surrounding the controversial rapper Médine, invited this Saturday to the LFI summer days. “Medine is our friend, he is not racist”, he assured before congratulating Ségolène Royal, present on stage before him. The former finalist of the 2007 presidential election launched this Friday in the race for the European elections with the support of rebellious France and calls on the left to unite behind her.