In front of the press, Mélenchon sets out to dismantle Emmanuel Macron’s program. The press was summoned this Wednesday afternoon by the Nupes on a watchword: “Chaos is Macron”. “Since the exchanges are done through the media, it is our turn to challenge the current government”began Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who insists on the “current” to remind that he is targeting Matignon. For weeks, the rebellious has been calling for a debate with the one he claims to replace, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Instead, he must content himself with returning the blows via the press.

While the current majority depicts a dangerous left with caricatures, exaggeration and even fake news, the Nupes wanted to dissect Macron’s program, or his program. Show the seriousness of the left by fighting project against anathemas. “Yes or no does the government want to save 80 billion?asked Mélenchon. It’s our right to know how they’re going to do it.”. “By increasing VAT, as suggested by Sylvain Maillard, spokesperson for the LREM group?”pretends to question the Nupes. “This is what liberal governments do with Fillon in 2012 and Hollande in 2014”, can we read on the distributed press kit. On stage, we watch Maxime des Gayets and Dieynaba Diop, the two socialists present on stage.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, expected on RTL later, gave way to representatives of all the political families of Nupes. They divided up the points of Macron’s program with which they disagreed: the obligation to work a certain number of hours for the beneficiaries of the RSA, the indexation of the remuneration of teachers according to the results of the pupils or even its lack of ambition on the climate. By our journalist Charlotte Belaïch.