The “professional deformation” of an “old vet friend”: the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon made irony on Thursday about the remarks made towards him by the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, who had asked him to “firm ( r)” his “mouth”.
“I don’t blame him, it’s (a) professional distortion,” said Mélenchon in Paris on the sidelines of a rally in support of an elected official summoned by the courts, in a video broadcast by LFI.
Former specialist veterinarian
“You’re going to eat worse than us!” », He first said into the microphone, questioning the management of the transport group Transdev, whose employees had been supported by the elected official summoned to court.
“I speak badly on purpose,” he then explains. “Because I have an old vet friend who says shut up. It’s not that he’s mean, it’s that he was around animals a lot. He thinks we have a face. But no, we have a mouth,” adds Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The leader of LFI refers to the profession of Gérard Larcher, a former veterinarian specializing in horses, re-elected at the end of September, at the age of 74, to the presidency of the Senate for a fifth three-year term.
Comments denounced by the left
On Wednesday, the senator Les Républicains des Yvelines sharply attacked Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ending his remarks with a “Shut up” much commented on subsequently by the political class. Unusual language from the Senate President.
The latter was reacting to Mélenchon’s comments calling journalist Ruth Elkrief “manipulative” on the social network
Larcher’s comments were strongly denounced by part of the left, when other personalities supported or said they “understood” the President of the Senate. After several hours of silence, Jean-Luc Mélenchon finally reacted on Wednesday evening on