Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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 Jean-Luc Mélenchon     (politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 19 August 1951 Tangier, Tangier International Zone, Morocco | |||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Franche-Comté | |||||||||||
| Member of | Freemasonry/Grand Orient de France | |||||||||||
| Party | Socialist Party (France) 1976-2008, La France Insoumise | |||||||||||
French politician and three times presidential candidate.
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Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon is a French politician. He has run for president of France three times (in 2012, 2017, and 2022).
Related Quotation
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| Jean Bricmont | “We often hear that the left-right opposition is outdated or no longer makes sense. But the problem is worse: on many issues, the left-right opposition has reversed itself, the left adopting positions that were those of the right or the far-right in the past and part of the right doing the opposite. Let's start with the question of peace and war. Since the wars have become "humanitarian", it is the left, including the bulk of the "radical" left, which supports them. When a perfectly orchestrated coup takes place in Ukraine, we celebrate the victory of democracy. In Syria, until recently, support, at least verbal, for the "rebels" was not debated in the left. During the bombings on Libya, Mélenchon argued that it was necessary to prevent the "tyrant" Gaddafi from killing the revolution. We realized a little late that the opponents of the said tyrant, like the bulk of the rebels in Syria, were also our opponents, that is to say fanatical Islamists. But the classical left, at least in its radical part, but sometimes also in a certain part of social democracy, was opposed to imperial policies, interference and American hegemony, especially during the Vietnam War. Today, the simple fact of defending the principle of national sovereignty passes for being far-right.” | Jean Bricmont | January 2017 |
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