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What should I know about Jean-Luc Mélenchon? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He’s a left French politician, several times candidate for presidency but never won.

He is seen as Fidel Castro boot licker by boomers (he is not), extreme left by right and extreme right (he is not).

He is a great talker but also a bit of an angry man which makes him unlikable to others.

Now is party is named "La France insoumise" (LFI) and they usually have very good political agendas, like at the last presidential it was something along the lines:

create the 6th republic based on true direct democracy
constitution is written by the French population for the French population
give back power to the population
once done, quit unless asked to stay president.

But because of his image among boomers and the right propaganda against him, he never won and his party suffer from his image.

The best thing would be to have his and LFI ideas without him. They need to find another leader for their image as Mélanchon is a liability for the left to access power.

We happened to have AI pictures of him as a dominatrix today in our French server https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/12001973

[–] Gilles_D@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Sounds like a very populist agenda.

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

If it’s the 6th Republic and new constitution stuff that make you think of populism, it’s not really the case. The current French constitution was more or less imposed by De Gaulle in very specific circumstances (the political crisis caused by the Algerian independance war). A number of people (among which Mélenchon) think it gives way too much power to the president and that we should go back to a more parliamentary system.