“RT @VL_syndicaliste: Nombre de tweets de Jean-Michel Apathie contre LFI cette semaine : 8. Nombre de tweets pour dénoncer l'agression d'un… --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2088930748526961099#m”
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon is a left-wing French politician who has been the de facto leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) since it was established in 2016. He was the deputy in the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022 and led the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021. Mélenchon was previously elected as a Member of t…
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culture · French politician (born 1951) · politician · journalist · corrector · secondary school teacher · editorial cartoonist · also Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon, Santerre, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Melenchon, Mélenchon
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Jean-Michel Aphatie, le père la morale élastique, pourrait présenter des excuses puisqu'il en demandait aux défenseurs de Bally Bagayoko ? --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2088664543413031273#m
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2026· 22 entries
“Jean-Michel Aphatie, le père la morale élastique, pourrait présenter des excuses puisqu'il en demandait aux défenseurs de Bally Bagayoko ? --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2088664543413031273#m”
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“Victoire majeure pour nos libertés fondamentales ! Le Conseil constitutionnel nous donne raison en censurant la loi visant au contrôle général de l’identité sur Internet sous prétexte de l'utopique contrôle des moins de 15 ans. Seul groupe à s'y être opposé à l'Assemblée, nous faisons une nouvelle fois la preuve que les Insoumis sont le rempart face au flicage numérique du peuple. Macron prétendait protéger la jeunesse ? Qu'il engage maintenant un vrai plan pour la jeunesse, son logement, son tr”
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“Après les calomnies contre Bally Bagayoko, démenties par la RATP, voici une campagne des mêmes contre Aly Diouara, maire de La Courneuve. Un hasard ? Auparavant, cela a été Danièle Obono, Rachel Keke et Carlos Martens Bilongo. Noir et LFI, c'est trop pour les suprémacistes médiatiques. Le racisme est devenu systémique comme moyen de lutte politique pour la caste. --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2088505985434255829#m”
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“Magnifique. Deux mois après ma conférence de presse aux médias alternatifs, les bonzes de l'officialité médiatique et de la macronie reprennent une campagne de l'extrême droite sur les réseaux. Preuve : 1/ d'une reconnaissance par les vieux médias de l'intérêt de ces conférences de presse qu'ils ont d'abord méprisées. 2/ de la nullité de ceux qui répètent sans savoir. 3/ de l'ignorance de ceux qui découvrent une idée que LFI défend depuis 10 ans... Il aura suffi d'un mot provocant pour agiter le”
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“Attal reprend à son compte, sans filtre, les idioties qu'il lit sur les réseaux au sujet de mon expression sur la dette de la France auprès de la Banque centrale. Consternant. Ce garçon ne connaît rien au sujet. L'annulation de cette dette n'impacte aucun créancier ! Il s'agit d'une écriture comptable interne. Comment un homme pareil peut prétendre diriger notre pays après avoir fait 1200 milliards de dette sans savoir comment fonctionnent la Banque centrale européenne et la Banque de France ? G”
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“Comme d'habitude, une campagne mensongère de l'extrême droite sur les réseaux sociaux finit par remonter sans filtre dans l'officialite médiatique. Ici, il s'agit de l'annulation d'une partie de la dette de l'État. Sans réfléchir, ni vérifier, les toutous médiatiques répètent ce qu'ils croient entendre dans mes propos sur le sujet. Sans dire qu'il s'agit de la dette détenue par la banque centrale européenne. Ce que LFI propose depuis 2020. Cette annulation ne coûterait rien à personne. Juste un”
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“🔴 ÉVÉNEMENT - Dimanche 23 août, rendez-vous à 10h pour le meeting de rentrée de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à Valence ! C’est ouvert et gratuit pour toutes et tous, retrouvez les informations sur : https:// actionpopulaire.fr/evenements/ c4e2658b-ca87-4853-9429-ccc02fd508fe/ --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2087205575226466797#m”
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“RT by @ JLMelenchon : Après m’avoir accusé, sous le pseudo Camille Eider, de détournement de fonds publics pour financer ma campagne en 2024, Frédéric Haziza récidive. Cette fois, il s’en prend à ma vie privée et m’interroge sur mon domicile personnel, pourtant déjà la cible de menaces de mort, etc.🧵 Après m’avoir accusé, sous le pseudo Camille Eider, de détournement de fonds publics pour financer ma campagne en 2024, Frédéric Haziza récidive. Cette fois, il s’en prend à ma vie privée et m’inte”
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“"Le Canard Enchaîné" encore trompé par les infos de Haziza sur les tarifs des AmFis d'été de LFI. C'est 35 euros pour trois jours, pas pour un. Et il y a aussi un tarif libre. Est ce qu'il reste encore un sujet à manipuler pour essayer de nous nuire ? Continuez ! Vous assurez notre campagne permanente contre l'officialité médiatique. Voilà pourquoi les médias français ont le taux le plus bas d'estime et de confiance en Europe. --- https:// nitter.net/JLMelenchon/status/ 2087165803426701409#m”
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Published video “Vlog au Festival d'Avignon”.
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Published video “L'Assemblée nationale vient de voter une loi émanant du programme de Jean-Marie Le Pen de 2007.”.
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Published video “Voilà le monstre contre lequel nous luttons.”.
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Published video “À cause de Macron, nous n'avons pas plus d'avions bombardiers d'eau qu'en 1984 !”.
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Published video “Discours du 14 juillet à Paimpont - Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.
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Published video “La France a les meilleures formations du monde pour le jeu vidéo. Et tout le monde s'en moque !”.
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Published video “Jean-Luc Mélenchon au Village du Off du Festival Off d'Avignon”.
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Published video “Le RN combat l’activité culturelle”.
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Published video “La culture est centrale et essentielle à la vie humaine - Point presse au Festival d'Avignon”.
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Published video “Le scandale du Méga-canal”.
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Stated regarding Taiwan that "There is a problem, and it is up to the Chinese to resolve it
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Announced his candidacy for the 2027 French presidential election
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2025· 5 entries
World Socialist Web Site: Jean-Luc Melenchon paralyses the struggle against French President Macron and the far right
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The Nation: Jean-Luc Mélenchon Explains How His Party Took Down a Right-Wing Government
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The New York Times: Jean-Luc Melenchon
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Yahoo: Firebrand Jean-Luc Melénchon: ‘France is ready to revolt. The Le Pen affair could be the spark’
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Two journalists published La Meute, a book about the rise of his movement
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2024· 6 entries
Reported claimRated There is no evidence Mr Mélenchon said this and it is not a policy of his party, or the New Popular Front coalition. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “One of the leaders of the New Popular Front in France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, promised Arabic will be an official language after the recent elections.” There is no evidence Mr Mélenchon said this and it is not a policy of his party, or the New Popular Front coalition..
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CNBC: Centrist parties won't allow Jean-Luc Melenchon to become France's PM, analyst says
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Yahoo: Who Is Jean-Luc Melenchon? Far-Left Leader Defiant After French Victory
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Told reporters working for popular TV show Quotidien: "You fascists, get out of here"
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Mélenchon condemned Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip as "genocide" and supported South Africa's genocide case against Israel
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“When I was born, one in ten French people had a foreign grandparent, now it”
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2023· 1 entry
Mélenchon was invited on France 5
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2022· 1 entry
“s domestic policy and notes his friend of the Russian Left Front, Sergey Udaltsov, is imprisoned in Russia. In February 2022, Mélenchon condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After Sergey Udaltsov expressed support for the invasion of Ukraine, Mélenchon cut his political ties with him and condemned his stance. In October 2022 he hosted three Russian opponents to Putin, Alexey Sakhnin, Andreï Roudoï and Elizabeta Smirnova, members of the”
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2021· 2 entries
“s opposition to immigration was rooted in Jewish culture. His remarks created outrage and were condemned as antisemitic by figures across the political spectrum In early June 2024, Mélenchon wrote in a blog post that antisemitism was”
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A court found him guilty of public defamation after calling a Le Monde journalist a former assassin
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2020· 1 entry
While interviewed about the French police, Mélenchon said:"I don't know if Jesus was on a cross, but he was put there by his own people
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2018· 3 entries
Investigative journalists working for France Info revealed irregularities in his campaign finance accounts
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Mélenchon described the countries that denounced the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election were "puppets of the United States"
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Mélenchon was asked a question about an anti-corruption investigation by a journalist from Toulouse, Véronique Gaurel
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2017· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2017–2022).
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Mélenchon called for French withdrawal from the integrated command of NATO, and in 2022 advocated for France assuring its own defence
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2015· 2 entries
Mélenchon referred to Ukraine as a country "struggling to be one"
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Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was killed next to the Kremlin
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2014· 4 entries
“France must protect itself from the powers of finance. They devour the real economy. ... To this end, the definition of the constitutional rights of private ownership of capital should change. ... Again, it is inclusion in the Constitution that will fix this and make it a common rule.”
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2014–2017).
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To outright condemnation after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
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Mélenchon considered the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea to be "absolutely predictable", stating that "Crimean ports [were considered by Russia as] vital for Russia's security", and that Russia was taking "protective m
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2013· 1 entry
Mélenchon referred to French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici as "one of those Eurogroup bastards [finance ministers]" putting pressure on Cyprus as it urgently sought a bail-out solution to its debt crisis
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2011· 1 entry
Journalist Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, commented that while it would be "quite unfair" to call Mélenchon a conspiracy theorist, he did sometimes abet antisemitic conspiracy theories by downplaying them
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2010· 1 entry
Called TV presenter David Pujadas "a bastard"
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2009· 3 entries
Claimed that François Hollande had not kept his word to grant him a score of 15% as per their agreement and indicated that he had told him he would never forgive him
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014).
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Told journalist Arlette Chabot: "You should go to hell" and added "she acts like a monkey"
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2008· 1 entry
Socialist Party members voted to decide between the different motions
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: Senator of the French Fifth Republic (2004–2010).
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2002· 1 entry
Shortly before the 1st round of the presidential election, the Jihadist attack against a Jewish school in Toulouse by Mohammed Merah a few months before the presidential election of 2012, and the terrorist attack in Pari
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister delegate (2000–2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Was one of the five Socialist members of parliament to vote against the text
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1998· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the general council (1998–2004).
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: Senator of the French Fifth Republic (1995–2000).
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1994· 1 entry
That the round-up and deportation of Jews to death camps during the war was the work of the country's Nazi occupiers and "Vichy France", an illegitimate entity distinct from France
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1993· 1 entry
Which allowed him to gain a leadership position within the party, as he became press secretary: "Rocard, who advocated consensus when he was Prime Minister, no longer speaks of an alliance with centrists but of an axis w
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1992· 1 entry
Called for a vote in favour of the Maastricht Treaty, which he considered a "left-wing compromise"
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of May presented by Raúl Alfonsín (1988).
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Opposed the open-door policy of François Mitterrand's second presidency, targeting Michel Rocard and the "soft left," as well as France's entry into the Gulf War (first Gulf War), against the majority of his party and
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1986· 2 entries
Career landmark: Senator of the French Fifth Republic (1986–1995).
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Entered the Senate, to which he was reelected in 1995 and 2004
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1985· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the general council (1985–1992).
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1981· 1 entry
As the end of a political process of which the main accelerator was "the ten million workers on strike" in the protests of 1968
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1976· 1 entry
Mélenchon was successively elected a municipal councillor of Massy (1983) and general councillor of Essonne (1985)
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1972· 2 entries
Studied at Marie and Louis Pasteur University, Bachelor of Philosophy (1969–1972).
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The Internationalist Communist Organisation
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1969· 1 entry
Mélenchon met Bernadette Abriel, two years younger than him, and they became parents of Marlyne, in 1974
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1968· 1 entry
To end the Prague Spring, an event that he said had significantly affected him in political terms, even more than the protests of 1968, which occurred when he was still a university student and he became leader of the st
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-08-19.
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