Faced with the heat wave, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended Friday, during the last day of the campaign before the second round of the legislative elections, “mutual aid” and “solidarity”, in opposition to “macronists” who, according to him, think that ” the market will settle everything”. During a press conference in Paris near a swing bridge below the Saint-Martin canal, prevented from turning by the heat which deforms the building materials, the rebellious tribune warned of climate change.
“Nothing has been done, as we speak, by the government,” he denounced. The government has provided a toll-free number and credits – so it’s no longer a government, it’s a phone booth – to, they say, renaturalize the city. ” The leader Insoumis assures him, ” if we are in the majority on Sunday evening, Monday we will take care of all that from the first hour, to try to ensure that we come out of the heat wave and its effects on the country. »
Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus calls for emergency and medium-term measures, in particular for access to water, working conditions during extreme heat or heat in the streets. “Politics must claim, not a miracle recipe [mais] of principles, insists the aspiring Prime Minister. […] Today we have the answer of the macronists,[…] it’s the market, ‘it will sort itself out, depending on whether or not you have the financial means to cope’. And our response is that of mutual aid and solidarity. »
“Get back on the pitch”
“This heat wave is a political heat wave”, insisted for his part Julien Bayou, recalling that the government had been “condemned twice for climate inaction”. The national secretary of EELV noted “a disagreement” between him and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the question of whether the government “has not become aware of the situation or if they do not care”. “Incompetence or cynicism is above all political irresponsibility,” he tackles.
“We are at half-time of a match, […] the 2nd half is Sunday, the 90th minute is Sunday at 8 p.m., insists Julien Bayou. Get on the pitch and help us score goals. ” According to him, “it is you who will make the election, in particular the youth, if you do not want to live episodes of this type repeatedly and that it becomes the norm”.