The leader of the Insoumis also criticized the “class contempt” of a “social category which little by little does not even hesitate to display its parasitism”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon signed a violent outing on January 28 against the “rich“which he said would make”secession” in the country. “You see it with the way they talk to you“Explained the leader of the Insoumis who came to speak in Villiers-le-Bel, alongside the Insoumis deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo who addressed his wishes to the militants.
“This class contempt is a signal of the existence of a social category which, little by little, no longer even hesitates to display its parasitism.“continued the former presidential candidate. Then, while ensuring not to do so “a personal matter“, Jean-Luc Mélenchon directly targeted the CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault, world’s first billionaire in 2022 with his family according to the magazine Forbes . “We have in our country the worst offense“, he denounced, adding on Twitter that “yes, the rich are responsible for the misfortune of the poor“.
“Immoral”
Still targeting Bernard Arnault, Jean-Luc Mélenchon lamented that he did not invent “something useful to other human beings” as “the cancer vaccine or a super train“. “He didn’t invent anything, he bought bankrupt boxes, he sorted through them, he kept the pretty pieces“, he continued. “He sells luxury, that is to say something that is absolutely useless, just to say ‘you have seen I am an important person’“.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon then ventured into a more general critique of accumulation. The fact of “accumulate money“is an act”immoral“. “What is accumulated? What we took from others“, denounced the leader of France Insoumise who declared in March 2022, at the time of his candidacy for the supreme magistracy, a real estate heritage of 1.4 million euros.
The Nupes are beginning to be accustomed to this kind of hunt for great fortunes. Recently, it was the ecologist Marine Tondolier who reacted by making the wish for a France “without billionaires“. During the meeting against the pension reform, the national secretary of environmentalists has indeed clearly stated this claim. “We no longer want a France of billionaires“, she hammered under the applause of the thousand people present for the event.
In comment, his rebellious colleague and close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon Manuel Bompard went even further. “In a country in which there are ten million poor people, twelve million people who live in situations of fuel poverty (…), being a billionaire in France today is immoral“, had added the deputy of Marseilles.
A “very big march” against pension reform
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also said he hoped that the unions “allow» the forthcoming organization of a «very large step“Against the pension reform”for a weekendfor further mobilization, three days before a new inter-union day against the government’s project.
“I hope that you will be involved in this action as much as possible. If there are calls to demonstrate, demonstrate. We are lucky to have all our unions united and all the organizations of the United Nupes for this January 31“, declared Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Villiers-le-Bel.
“I form the wish that the unions allow, by calling for it, that a very large march takes place during a weekend. Why for a weekend? Because during the week, only those who are at work can enter into action, through strikes. Which is not always easy for them, but they are therecontinued Mr. Mélenchon.
“But you must think that there are more than two million students, of whom only one million – half – are working, precariously but working. You have several million retirees, several hundred thousand people who cannot go to work“, Argued the former presidential candidate.
“They must be able to participate in the struggle. All together ! Salaried workers, unemployed, retired, students, high school students even if necessary, and it is necessary, all together, we are the people“, launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The leader of La France insoumise accused the government “to set up the integral market society, where everything is market and everything is commodity“.
The pension reform project will be examined Monday in committee at the National Assembly, before a new day of demonstration on Tuesday. The first, on January 19, gathered in the street between 1.12 and 2 million people.