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CHRONIC. The coronation of Charles III made the man who wanted to be president, and who preferred Robespierre to parliamentary democracy, lose his last bearings.
By Sophie Coignard
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TWhile televisions around the world were broadcasting the coronation of King Charles III in London this Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon demonstrated in Marseille against the high cost of living and pensions. Bruised, perhaps, that the cameras prefer the pomp of the crown to his harangues against the “bad Republic”, the former deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône indulged in insane remarks: “In front of a people who has been so humiliated by neoliberal policies, there is something sickening about this cinema with this man covered in disguise, jewels and precious stones. »
Small precision: it is not a question of “cinema”, but of a thousand-year-old ritual, inaugurated well before the birth of the Lumière brothers. As for the “neoliberal policies”, they were never the work of the queen…