The leader of the new unitary bloc of the French left

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common front. Jean-Luc Mélenchon aims for a majority in parliament forcing Macron to appoint him prime minister

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has achieved fame to become the leader of the French left. At the head of La France Insumisa, he is on track to achieve what he could not achieve five years ago when his attempt to unite the opposition to President Emmanuel Macron failed. Progressives are moving towards a united front around Mélenchon in the run-up to parliamentary elections due to take place in June. His ambitions are stronger than ever after the results of the last presidential election, in which he won nearly 21.95% of the vote in the first round and fell about 400,000 votes short of beating far-right Marine Le Pen. “A new page of battles will open. The fight continues,” he said on election night.

His political vein was awakened at the age of 14, when a girl gave him the book ‘Histoire de la Révolution française’ by Adolphe Tiers, which made him interested in the legacy of Gallic republicanism. Since then, he could not get away from political life. After working in a watch shop and at a gas station in his youth, he studied philosophy. He also practiced journalism. He advocated as a student leader during the May 1968 protests and in college he joined the Trotskyist left. He joined the Socialist Party as early as 1976, but it wasn’t until 1983 that he became fully publicly active as a councilor for the city of Massy, ​​south of Paris. Until now, one of the key positions he has held has been that of Minister of Vocational Training in Lionel Jospin’s government between 2000 and 2002.

Throughout these years, his deep Spanish roots have accompanied him – he shows it by speaking Spanish fluently in press conferences and interviews. Mélenchon was born in Tangier in 1951, when Morocco was still a French protectorate. His paternal grandparents were from Murcia and his maternal grandparents were Basque. With the independence of the Maghreb colonies, he left his native country at the age of 11 to spend his adolescence between Normandy and the Jura.

Mélenchon has a daughter, Maryline (48), from his brief marriage to Bernadette Abriel, and a 15-year-old granddaughter. His eldest daughter inherited his political vocation because he worked in the Lyon and Jura city council. His family’s support drives him in his pursuit of a left-wing majority in parliament that forces Macron to appoint him prime minister.

Source: La Verdad

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