Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Mélenchon , born the August 19th 1951 with Tangier (Morocco), is a socialist Politician French.

Holder of Deug of modern letters, a license of philosophy and a control in this discipline, he was professor in technical education, corrector in printing works, workman of maintenance, journalist, municipal principal private secretary in Parisian suburbs. Assistant of the mayor of Massy in 1983, general adviser as from March 1985, deputy president of the general advice of the the Essonne in 1998, he is senator of the Essonne since the September 28th 1986.

Biography

Leader of the movement high-school pupil at the time of May 68 in its town of Lons-the-Salt maker, it joined UNEF (National union of the students of France) as of its entry in faculty in September 1969. At the conclusion of the events from May-June 1968 with Besancon, the communist League and PSU, majority in the AGEB-UNEF, supports a catch in hand of the trade union by the partisans of its change in “political movement of mass”. While being opposed to it, Jean-Luc Mélenchon joined the current trotskist OCI (communist Organization internationalist, of obedience lambertist) which tries to counter this policy. After the scission of the UNEF in 1970, Jean-Luc Mélenchon takes part in the combat to rebuild the UNEF local like trade union defending the material and moral interests students , at the same time against the trade-union current resulting from UEC, animating the UNEF-Revival, binding the trade union to the boards of trustees of the law Faure , and against the currents gauchists which aim its transformation into political movement . It is for this reason that he becomes president of the local union coed, then integrates the national office of the trade-union Unef-Unit in 1974. Its list with the elections of CROUS in 1975 obtains 60% of the votes cast.

From 1972 to 1975, it becomes leading OCI with Besancon and plays a big role in the regional establishment of this organization with Pares and Lons-the-Salt maker (the Jura). Its practice of trade union leader of mass - animation of the fights coeds and workers of the years 1969-1974, in particular the strike of the Lip, important dismantled Besancon-native clock making industry a few years later - the pleasing one gradually to take its distances with the Leninist design of the party. It is the time when the Socialist party of François Mitterrand reconstituted with the congress of Épinay in 1971, occupies gradually on the left all the space of democratic socialism, putting PCF in electoral difficulties. It leaves Besancon in 1976 to enter the community activity to Lons-the-Salt maker and adheres to the PS. It there occupies departmental responsibilities very quickly and develops a federal newspaper which fights for the union PC - PS; it is the time when PCF breaks the agreements of union of the left on a common program of government. Noticed at the time of a Jurassic festival of the Fist and the Rose by Claude Germon, mayor of Massy and member of the executive office of the PS in load of the sector undertaken of the socialist party, it leaves in Paris region and becomes principal private secretary of this political official.

It becomes one of the principal leaders mitterrandists of the federation of the Essonne, which leads it to the post of first secretary of this federation to the congress of Valence in 1981. Being opposed at the same time to the Second left rocardienne and CERES of Chevènement, he works with the organization of the current mitterrandist, in the Essonne initially then through a " publication; Data and Arguments" , which will be the crucible of a left current within the party. Founder with Julien Dray of the Left Socialist, it opposes the entry of France in the first War of the Gulf against the majority of his party. In March 2000, it agrees to take part in the government of Lionel Jospin as deputy secretary with vocational training. Drawing the assessment from the defeat at the polls of April 2002, when the component animated by Julien Dray makes the choice pass in the team of François Holland, it cofonde the current Nouveau World with Henri Emmanuelli. Then, in 2004, it founds association PRS (For the social republic) outwards and independently of the Socialist party with an aim of formulating and of making live a clearly republican orientation in the French left.

It will be one of the socialist directors to be fought openly for not with the Constitutional treaty European during the year 2005, in the party (58% in favor of yes), then in the country in many meeting. Considering that the candidate with the presidential election could only come from not with the European Constitutional treaty, it supports the candidature of Laurent Fabius against Ségolène Royal and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. After the victory of Ségolène Royal within the PS, he will think one moment possible to promote a candidature of the left of the PS, supported by the antilibéraux PCF and currents, on an orientation of rupture with liberalism and universalization. Association PRS continues its activity today: she decides for a new political clout which takes into account at the same time the failure of what was the Soviet model and the dead end of a European social democracy which accompanies the " réformes" neoliberalism. Another way is possible , it is at least what the emergence of a party like the Linkspartei translates into Germany.

It intervenes regularly in are not afraid of the words , a daily program of debate presented by Samuel Etienne diffused on the chain of information uninterrupted I>Télé.

It is often characterized by standpoint considered as nationalist Frenchwomen and Souverainiste, by some (Greens, the PS of the Brittany area, the regionalistic ones in particular), which refer so that they call " cultural diversity and linguistique". It was described as " peacock sectaire" by Jean-Yves Le Drian, socialist president of the Area Brittany, for its polemical interventions repeated (with the Senate, in the media, and on its blog) against the policy of the Brittany area, the " cultural difference bretonne" , and in particular against the associative bilingual schools Diwan. Its remarks on the Lithuanians during the countryside of 2005 were severely criticized.

Mandate Buildings

1983 - 1989: City council man of Massy;
1989 - 1995: assistant of the mayor of Massy (the Essonne).
1995 - 2001: city council man of Massy
1985 - 1992 1998 - 2000 and 2001 - 2004: general adviser of the Essonne, canton of Massy-West not candidate for his own succession with the cantonal elections of March 2004);
1998 - March 2000: vice-president of the general advice of the Essonne.

Mandate of senator

1986 - 2000: Senator of the Essonne.
September 26th 2004: re-elected Senator of the Essonne.

Ministerial functions

Mars 2000 - May 2002: Deputy secretary with the vocational training of the Government Lionel Jospin.

Political offices with the PS

Founder of the current " The left socialiste" with the PS, member of the national council of the PS, member of the national office of the PS, director of the drafting of the weekly report On the left , cofounder and president of the socialist current " New World ".

Countryside for not in 2005

After the internal referendum with the Socialist party on the draft treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe and the victory of yes, it enfreint instructions of its party and fact countryside at the sides of Marie-George Buffet (PCF), Olivier Besancenot (LCR) and Jose Bove (Peasant confederation) at the time of common meetings for not of left.

The countryside of nonpleasing the bursting of New World and the recombining of the left wing of the Socialist party. Whereas Henri Emmanuelli creates a new current, Socialist alternative, Jean-Luc Mélenchon approaches Laurent Fabius for Congrès of Mans.

After the victory of not in the country with the referendum of May 29th, 2005, it is presented itself in the form of a “hyphen” within the Socialist party and of the left partners. It defends the idea according to which the socialist candidate for the presidential election of 2007 must be a person who defended not with the referendum on the European Constitution, because this expiry would coincide according to him with the European calendar for a renegotiation of the constitutional treaty which should apply as from 2009. In this spirit, for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Laurent Fabius would be the rassemblor within the PS.

Moreover, he declared Monday August 22nd 2005: “There are not fifty candidates for the presidential election of 2007 to the PS, at the point where are we, there remain only two about it: Laurent Fabius and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They are two intelligent men, who have good mine, but they should well thus be dissociated on something on their ideas and their engagements. I wish that the PS not make the error go to introduce a candidate who would have been in favor of yes it [[French Referendum on the European constitution|European constitution], which is the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn]. By reasoning, I deduce that it is Laurent Fabius who must be candidate. Fabius was minister, he is able to direct the country. I will support it, but not blank check”. Two days later of the nomination of Ségolène Royal by the Socialist party, it attended a meeting of the Gauche antilibérale, letting plane the doubt about its possible support for its candidature for the presidential election.

After the failure of the left of the left to gather a consensus on its candidate, he writes in his blog: “Part of the politicized electorate of the left is demobilized. It does not feel not represented. Part of the electoral population among disabled (by the hardness of the life) - disorientated (by the absence of radical political alternative understandable) will continue to float between the nauseated indifference and the pushes of blind electoral anger. Lastly, the centrality of the socialist candidature on the left is from now on total, whether that likes or not, because it appears the only effective one to reach the common program most elementary: to be present at the second round and to beat the line”, thus affirming its support for Ségolène Royal.

Works

In search of left , Balland Editions, 2007.
republican Causes , Editions of the Threshold, 2004. (Republication of texts published in Le Monde , Marianne , Politis , the New socialist Review , On the left , or others)
For the social republic (collective work), Editions Harmattan, 2002.
the new age of capitalism (collective work), Editions Harmattan, return 1998.
Rocard, it missed , Éditions Denoël, 1994.
With the conquest of chaos , Denoël Editions, 1991.

External bonds

Blog of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
His card on the site of the Senate

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