Yves Thréard’s editorial: “France abandoned to the engineers of chaos”

The foreign press is wondering about the reasons for the anger that is igniting France. It was enough to be on the Place de la République, in Paris, on this Thursday of demonstration, to understand. There, perched on a platform, with his fist raised, surrounded by the elected representatives of his clan and applauded wildly, a man triumphant: “Mélenchon, president! » The Chief Rebel had the look of a winner. He loves watching himself in the crowd so much. Not far from him, Raphaël Glucksmann, his competitor from the other left, had to leave the scene to boos. In a few moments, everything was said. Before the polls, the presidential election is first played out in the streets.

The country has a protest culture which has certainly always surprised the rest of the world, but Jean-Luc Mélenchon adds his insurrectional rhetoric. He brings all the followers of the black flag, the young people looking for a big night out and the battalions of anti-capitalist trade unionists to march behind him. This is how he sets his sights on the second…