Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃lyk melɑ̃ʃɔ̃]; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who has been a member of the National Assembly since 2017.After joining the Socialist Party in 1976, he was successively elected municipal councilor of Massy (1983), general councilor of the Essonnedepartement (1985) and Senator of the same department (1986, reelected in 1995 and 2004). He also served as Minister for Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, under Minister of National Education Jack Lang, in the cohabitationgovernment of Lionel Jospin. He was part of the left-wing of the Socialist Party until the Reims Congress of 2008, at the outcome of which he left that party to found the Left Party with Marc Dolez, a member of the National Assembly.[1][2] He was the president of the party, and then its co-president, along with Martine Billard, until August 2014.[3]
As leader of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European elections, and was elected as a member of the European Parliament in the South-West constituency (reelected in 2014). He was the candidate of that coalition in the 2012 presidential election, at which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the votes. He founded the movement La France Insoumise(FI) in February 2016. He was a candidate in the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties" at the outcome of which he again came in fourth, receiving 19.58% of the votes. In June 2017, he became a member of the National Assembly for La France Insoumise after the following 2017 French legislative election receiving 59.85% (in the second round) in the 4th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, entirely located in the city of Marseille.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is often very rough with the media, and has before asked his party members to monitor and film journalists, especially of Le Monde and Libération.[82] Lilian Alamgna of Libération writes, "If the media are the opponents, he can also use them to get his message across."[83] Mélenchon has also insulted numerous journalists: he labelled Renaud Revel of L'Express a "dirty little spy" and labelled the newspaper "fascist".[84] He accused Le Monde journalists of being CIA spies.[85] When questioned on if he could win "without Benoît Hamon" by a France 5 reporter, he told a member of his team to throw him out, and called him an "asshole".[86]
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