March against the cost of living: "A step towards a general strike" for the Nupes
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While he expected a low mobilization, the strikes and requisitions ordered by the government could allow the leader of LFI to succeed in mobilizing this Sunday, October 16 "against the cost of living. Jean-Luc Mélenchon hopes to revive the Nupes after a difficult autumn marked by serial polemics.
"We are all doped by the situation", assures, all smiles, a deputy LFI ... A few days ago, the France Insoumise was still doubting the success of its march on the expensive life planned on Sunday in Paris but the wind has just turned. By launching the requisition of the employees of Total, the government has, in spite of itself, inflated the sails of the movement.
"We are announced more than 100 buses from the provinces," boasts the same one who adds "thank you Macron!
The question we are asked is: are we capable of resonating with the social anger that is rising in the country," explained Clémentine Autain, the deputy of La France Insoumise, on Thursday 13 October.
"Accelerating the story
Things had started badly, however. In mid-September, the CGT announced that it would not participate in the march imagined by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Without the unions, LFI expected to have difficulty mobilizing. The movement was struggling.
The leader Insoumis then decided to try everything and published a provocative tweet: "On October 5 and 6, 1789 women march on Versailles against the cost of living.
Dissolution in focus... Some dream of a hard movement that could lead to a dissolution. LFI believes in it and Jean-Luc Mélenchon is still preparing to start a campaign to... to be elected to Matignon. In a more prosaic way, thanks to this march, LFI also hopes to turn the page on the Quatennens affair and to make people forget the tweets of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the subject which have fractured the group. It will also be to display the unity of the Nupes elsewhere than in the Assembly to show its good health. But these are also the fault lines that will appear in broad daylight. For if Olivier Faure is expected, the boss of the Communist party Fabien Roussel will not participate because, he announced, he will be at a banquet of seniors in his constituency. The ecologist Yannick Jadot will not go to beat the pavement either because, he believes: "Given the brutality of the crisis, our priority should be to build the movement with the unions." The reaction of François Hollande As for former president François Hollande he judged that "political parties are in the Assembly, in the communities they manage, but not in the street to play the role of unions." His close enemy Mélenchon expected no less.