Lhe immersive meeting organized this Sunday, January 16 in Nantes by La France insoumise (LFI) had a goal: “to show our vision in wide-angle”, proclaimed the party’s presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “It’s the blue planet!” exclaimed, pointing to the tribune as a visual spread across the four 50-meter-wide walls projecting the 3,000 supporters into space. And the Insoumis to launch into a demonstration on its program concerning space. “It is seen from space that we better understand everything there is to do on Earth, thousands of applications in your phone depend on space, GPS, weather, cartography…” .
For him, the Ariane program gives serious advantages to France: “The French can openly enroll in this new page in the history of humanity. “This is the International Station; there, it’s a satellite; there, it’s the Moon, “said the candidate, showing on the screens the” new border “that the French have to aim for. Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged his supporters to the “political battle for the decommodification of space, for the disarmament of space, it must remain a place of peace”, “questions which should be in the presidential election”. The immersive meeting, which remained discreet on the olfactory level according to some participants, was thought of as a mobilization tool: “Here is the world in the three dimensions in which I call on you to commit yourself firmly. »
After the “vertical”, “now we are going to go horizontally from the digital canvas”, then launched the tribune, while the visual table representing printed circuits was spread out on the screens. Policy of independence on the Internet cables laid under the oceans, artificial intelligence of which “we must not be afraid”, machines which must finally “relieve the pain of human beings”: the Insoumis affirmed that politics must reclaim the Technical progress. Thus, the time saved thanks to the machines will help, according to him, to guarantee retirement at 60 and the effective 35 hours, then the 32 hours of weekly working time.
Ode to the sea
“And now the most beautiful, the depth, which occupies 70% of the planet: the sea! exclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon when approaching the last visual tableau. “Look at its power, its strength, this is the exit door from nuclear power, because it contains 66 times the power we need, with the movement of the tides and the currents”, professed the one who visited the first offshore wind turbine off the coast. from Pornichet (Loire-Atlantique) on Friday.
“If we win the election, we will have to roll up our sleeves, our whole system will be based on the impetus that fundamental research will give”, he continued, wishing for the training of “thousands of middle managers”. for its “ecological bifurcation”, “practical and without compromise”. The candidate explained why he opted for an immersive meeting, which some on the left see as a “gadget”. For him, “it was necessary to show in wide-angle the vision of the world that we carry through the measures of the Future in common”, his program for a “harmony of humans between them and with nature”.
“Ship”
“I, who am used to meetings of La France insoumise, that changes”, confided to Agence France-Presse Gilles Pialland at the end of the meeting. “Of course, it had a spectacle side, but everything that was projected was related to the speech and the program. “However, he regrets that the olfactory dimension was particularly discreet: “Apart from a few smells, it was difficult with the mask. »
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This “brilliance to start the year” was also, according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a way of turning to “those good people who are in despair, not knowing which way to turn” while the left is scattered in six main candidates and cannot compete in the polls with Emmanuel Macron and the rights. And to reject again the calls for the union of the Popular Primary, vote of investiture which is held at the end of January: “We are not concerned by the misadventures of the center left, between the PRG of Taubira and the Socialist Party of Hidalgo “, he pinged, the day after the declaration of candidacy for the first.