“Anyone can do better, me too”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon said Saturday on France 2 “to accept criticism” on his decried reaction to the Quatennens affair, explaining not “having wanted to get involved” in the divorce of his friends.
Interviewed in the program “What a time! “On his tweet of September 18, which outraged feminists and contributed to putting La France insoumise in difficulty, the boss of LFI replied: “Everyone can do better, me too”.
“I accept your judgement, I accept criticism”
In this tweet, the rebellious leader denounced “police malice, media voyeurism, social networks” and saluted the “dignity” and “courage” of Adrien Quatennens, who had just confessed to domestic violence and announced his withdrawal from coordination of LFI. “I accept your judgement, I accept the criticism,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Saturday. But he justified his reaction: “I forbid myself to comment” on the divorce of friends and a handrail that the wife of Adrien Quatennens wanted confidential. Because “if I had said one word too many, it was she who could have said to me: What are you getting into? “, he added.
“I understand that people say + No, you have to intervene to point the finger +, but I think it’s a mistake: there was not even an investigation, she says + I don’t want that we talk about me +, everyone doesn’t care what she says, not me ”, developed the former presidential candidate (22% in April).
“The slap was a year ago”
“All those who are feminists – and I count myself in it – we have the right to disagree, I do not agree that the handrails pass into the public”, declared Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The slap was a year ago, there hasn’t been one for a year, and we have to take into account that he apologizes,” he defended.
Should Adrien Quatennens resign from his mandate as a deputy, after withdrawing from the coordination of LFI? “My answer is no: let this divorce end, let the judge rule. And I want him to come back to the political fight”, said Mélenchon, praising an “extraordinarily brilliant young man” whom “you cannot forbid me to love”.