Mélenchon appropriates the no victory in Greece – Le Figaro

In the “Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI,” the former leader of the Left Party welcomed “the failure of a sly and disastrous project.”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon welcomed Sunday’s victory in the referendum in Greece, saying that “this is the victory of a method and the failure of a sly and calamitous project “and that” the crisis was caused absolute deliberately by the Eurogroup. “

Guest of the” Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, “the former Party leader Left denounced “an attempted coup against (Alexis) Tsipras, a financial coup”. Mélenchon said that “a part of the Greek debt was granted outside the Greek constitutional rules”.

“The Greek people, the victim of an incredible pounding ( ….), will force Europe to enter a new era “

With his usual verve, he continued:” The game is over, you lost, this time This is not. (…) Now we have to talk seriously about the fact that the European sovereign debt are non-refundable. “On the basis that” the debt (Greek) will naturally never paid “and that” we can not identify with primary surplus in a country in agony, “he called for a meeting of a” European conference of sovereign debt “to the initiative of France, as part of” calmer Management “folder . Recalling that Greece will not leave the eurozone, as always said the Greek prime minister, Mélenchon has not been very explicit about “the other euro” it seems appeal his wishes. He considers that “the Greek people, the victim of an incredible shelling (…), will force Europe to enter a new era.”

The former candidate for the presidential election of 2012 ( he had obtained 11.11% of votes and nearly 4 million votes on his name) said on Sunday: “I have a responsibility. I have to assume the role of spokesperson. “

When the Left Party congress Sunday morning Mélenchon had landed natural candidate of the left of the left,” out of duty “. During the “Grand Jury” was less explicit, saying he “seriously working” and “constitutes the teams.” Forward the attitude of the PS, which he said, “specializes in the retraction and lies”, he declined to say whether he would call for the creation of a “republican front” to prevent victory of the National Front in a given region. “If I say yes, why have a list? The FN is the best argument of the PS and the former UMP (LR) to kill democracy, “he denounced.

Mélenchon suggests that this matter be” cut after the first round by citizens of AG “will decide, region by region, of the strategy. Although his relationship with the former patron of the Greens Cécile Duflot are very distended, MEP said candidates PG “discussed with environmentalists on the ground”. “There will be joint lists” with them in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy, Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne or Midi-Pyrénées, Languedoc-Roussillon, he announced.