J-L MELENCHON :: 3 FEB 2014 :: MARINE LE PEN IN CRIMINAL COURT English subtitles
In this short clip Mr Mélenchon explains why dishonesty and deceit are inadmissible during election campaigns and how Mrs Le Pen ended up in criminal court.
The youngest Senator ever in 1981, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was cabinet minister responsible for Professional Education in Lionel Jospin's government (2000-02) as well as a member of the French Senate (1986-2009). He was a long-time executive member of the Socialist Party (1977-2008). He left the PS in 2008, remarking that Socialism is a conviction, not a career. He created the Left Party which is part of a wider electoral coalition, The Left Front. This umbrella organisation is similar to Syriza in Greece or Die Linke in Germany.
In May 2012, Jean-Luc Mélenchon ran for the French presidency. In the first round of the election, he secured 11.1% of the share of the votes nationally (over 4 million votes) in the teeth of total media blackout on his political programme, many malicious misrepresentations (generally chronicled on this channel) and the apparatus' determination to propell the "extreme right" (a euphemism for Fascism) into power for their particular advantage. Déjà vu all over again ?
Once as a tragedy, then as a farce. You'll recall we've been promising one for months, and note that all the elements have now been assembled. Never abandon this important contribution to the gaiety of nations, and hope all the while that it all blows up in their faces -- should be any time now - so the real good guys get the last laugh.
