"WE ARE THE ALTERNATIVE TO YOUR WORLD" - MÉLENCHON RESPONDS TO PM'S SPEECH
Channel: JEAN-LUC MÉLENCHON IN ENGLISH UNOFFICIAL
Date: 04/09/2017

On July 4th 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon responded to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's general policy speech. He announced that the France insoumise parliamentary group would not support the government and denounced Emmanuel Macron's use of ordinances to force the destroying of labor law through Parliament. He also criticized the government for introducing provisions from the state of emergency into common law, and warned the deputies of a plebiscite for the reduction of the number of deputies. Jean-Luc Mélenchon set out his proposals to moralize public life: to castigate corrupters, to hunt tax dodgers, to limit the indecent salaries of the Paris Stock Exchange's champions, to forbid the revolving door between business and politics, to implement the recall referendum. He finally denounced the absence of ecological measures in the PM's speech and advocated the phasing out of nuclear power and the transition to 100% renewable energies, and spoke about the "martyrdom of animals".