“Do better on October 16”: Jean-Luc Mélenchon responds to criticism after his controversial tweet evoking the French Revolution – franceinfo

“Will Veran and Bergé still go to the military parade on July 14 for the storming of the Bastille (100 dead)? The women’s march in 1789 remains a model of women’s social struggle (0 dead, capture of the king and DDHC). The October 16, follow the good examples. Walk!”, declared on Twitter the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this Friday noon, after sparking a new controversy with a tweet, published the day before. >> ” Do better on October 16″: with a tweet evoking the French Revolution, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reveals the divisions within the Nupes Dear #NUPES friends, the women’s march of 1789 cut no head or guillotined anyone. 0 dead. The brutalization of social life is expensive living and climate inaction. Let’s walk shoulder to shoulder. #Marche16Octobre — Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 7, 2022 “On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the cost of living. They brought the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16,” the former presidential candidate tweeted on Thursday, alluding to an episode of the French Revolution and the “march against high cost of living and climate inaction” on October 16 in Paris. All the parties of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) have planned to participate. On October 5 and 6, 1789, women marched on Versailles against the high cost of living. They bring back the king, the queen and the dauphin by force to Paris under popular control. Do better on October 16. — Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 6, 2022 The government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, and the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, criticized him for this tweet, as did several of its partners within Nupes, including the socialist Olivier Faure and the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau. “Jean-Luc you can do better”, “We are not in a situation where we have to put the heads of our leaders on the end of a pike”, “We do not cut off heads, ever” we were able to read from several personalities of the Nupes. therefore targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, still weakened, nearly three weeks after his message of support to Adrien Quatennens, who admitted to having slapped his wife. “I think that the brutalization at this point of the political debate, in the end, it only serves Marine Le Pen, it does not serve to advance our proposals”, criticized this Friday the environmentalist MEP Yannick Jadot from Strasbourg, where the European Ecology-The Greens (EELV) parliamentary days are held. According to him, “it builds mistrust vis-à-vis politics, and we are not in a situation where we have to put the heads of our leaders on the end of a pike”. “We are in a very anxious, very anxious country. There is war, there is the energy crisis, we have to be very careful about the way we do politics today,” he said. he still affirmed in front of the press. Her former rival in the environmental primary, Sandrine Rousseau, also present in Strasbourg, also reacted to journalists. “No, we don’t cut off heads, never, anywhere,” said the Green MP. “We walk, we groan, we shout, we dance, we are happy too, but on the other hand we don’t cut heads, no”, she insisted. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon never does anything,” she added when asked about the possible consequences of this tweet for the “march against high cost of living and climate inaction”. She then let out a laugh. There Jean Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer any king or queen. We will have neither spade nor pitchfork. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder. https://t.co/rhIrU0ivok — Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) October 6, 2022 The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was one of the first to react. “There Jean-Luc you can do better. Provocation is not always the best way to be heard. There is no longer a king or queen. We will have neither spades nor pitchforks. Our mobilization will be non-violent and its strength is its message: justice against social disorder,” he said on Twitter. “No, dear Olivier Faure, it is up to the Socialist Party to do better because Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not changed, he has always been on this line”, replied Stéphane Le Foll, mayor of the socialist of Le Mans and l one of his opponents within the PS. He “asks” thus “the Socialist Party not to participate” in the demonstration “organized by La France insoumise” on October 16 in Paris.