This Thursday evening, the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon was invited to the political program “Face à Baba”, on C8. The presenter of the program, Cyril Hanouna, had also invited Eric Zemmour to debate with the candidate of France Insoumise, which led to a real settling of accounts between the two men.
The tone quickly rose when the two candidates approached immigration, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon obviously had trouble containing his anger. “In the niche, the dog!”, In particular, the far-left candidate got carried away.
This Friday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon returned to his controversial remarks. In a lengthy message posted on his personal website, the politician attempted to justify his behavior.
“The day following a program which was to last two hours and which lasted four, it is difficult to disperse the mists of the following morning. When a sequence which was supposed to last twenty minutes with Zemmour instead of ten thanks to the antenna and which finally lasts an hour and ten, it is difficult not to have the feeling of having been manipulated“, began the LFI candidate.
“It’s all a lot”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon notably attacked the organizers of the show for having invited the polemicist Eric Zemmour. “Turning a crude racist into a political subject to whom we serve an hour of TV as a gift, seeing an Interior Minister flatter a corporatism of omerta, all that is a lot“, he hammered. “Hearing good minds regret that the show to which they thought they were entitled was in less good taste because the tone rose sadly on the incurable conformity of the haves of life“, he said once more, before promising himself never to participate in “no show without a serious guarantee of balance, even if it means canceling an hour before or leaving a set along the way”.
“One evening in January, a dawning morning, in a return of gloomy hours in the history of our country, we must move forward, flag and music in mind, and believe in our ideal of a France for all.“, philosophically concluded the far-left candidate.
