“After letting the yellow vests pass, LFI does not want to miss the train of anger”

Antoine Bristielle is a doctor of political science and director of the observatory of the opinion of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation.

Le Figaro.- This Sunday. However, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on his activists to put himself at the service of the movement “let’s block everything” to counter the Bayrou government budget. However, What is this movement?

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It is always difficult to characterize the movements of this type. Meanwhile, gaseous, with various claims, not very centralized and therefore without a common watch. Consequently, In “after letting yellow vests pass, general, this is an opposition determined to the policy of the Bayrou government.

Does this absence of a central figure have enough to suggest “yellow vests”?

The structuring of the movement evokes the “yellow vests”: born on social networks. Furthermore, we do not know very well who is at the origin. However, These movements aggregate discussions on social networks – rather groups on Facebook with regard to “yellow vests”. Furthermore, Telegram for “let’s block everything”. Meanwhile, In both cases, these groups are not necessarily national; They are organized by region or department. For example, There is also a link in the promotion of economic issues, against expensive life … However, we essentially remember the power of “yellow vests”, which is still far from being reached by “let’s block everything”.

Devoid of partisan label, “let’s block everything” aggregates several claims. In addition, The date of September 10 joins “after letting yellow vests pass, other calls to demonstrate. those of anti-ZFEs with Alexandre Jardin and tax anti-pressure with “Nicolas who pays”. How do you explain this pile of claims?

The population has reached an important level of disappointment. fear and concern that the last elections – presidential or legislative – have not made it possible to temper. Number of claims are devoid of concrete political outlet. The Bayrou government acts with difficulty in view of the current functioning of the Parliament. France is a bit of a pressure cooker …

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has always been attached to the links between political organizations. unions and did not understand that a movement like the “yellow vests” could hatch outside of these structures. He had therefore kept away. preventing him from harvesting the slightest political dividend

Antoine “after letting yellow vests pass, Bristielle

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Each school year promises to be tense socially. Do you think there is a climate that is more conducive to dispute than usual?

All surveys demonstrate great dissatisfaction in the country. But the social movements that operate are born rather on very concrete measures – for example the movement against the pension reform. that of the “yellow vests” against the tax of Édouard Philippe on fuels. “Let’s block everything” is positioned against an entire budget, which is less easy to grasp. On the one hand, it therefore seems unlikely to lead to a major social movement. But on the other. the French no longer feel represented by their institutions – the government is based only on a minority of them -, which can be abrasive.

Why does the rebellious France bet on “let’s block everything” rather than calling directly to manifest?

At the time of “yellow vests”, rebellious France had remained behind, without knowing how to position itself. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has always been attached to the links between political organizations. unions and did not understand that such a movement could hatch outside of partisan or union structures. He had therefore stood out, preventing him from harvesting the slightest political dividend. In addition, we recently attended a fairly clear break between rebellious France and union movements, in particular the CGT. During the pension reform. the convergence desired by LFI between the left parties and the union movements had not taken place, due to differences of views on political and militant participation. Since then. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has therefore tended to consider that it is ultimately “after letting yellow vests pass, the social movements born outside the trade union organizations that have a chance to succeed. Finally, this translates LFI’s desire to regain control over the political calendar. Since the last legislative elections where the rebellious people thought they had to form a government with the NFP. the party was in a complex situation: their call for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron, for example, had not been followed by the other parties …

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“Let’s block everything” is torn between calls to stay at home to paralyze the economy. other calls to express physically. How can LFI get into this cleavage?

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This type of movements is devoid of organization. Anyone can therefore offer their operating mode, express their claims … Besides. during the month “after letting yellow vests pass, preceding the first event of “yellow vests”, there was no consensus on the method to adopt either. Insoumise France was born in reaction to the 2012 Left Front – which brought together the various radical leftist formations – in the ambition to go beyond parties to be in the intertwining between a political party. a social movement. Therefore, there is a consistency with a movement by nature gaseous as “let’s block everything”. In addition. it is consistent with the militant logic of LFI: to be an insoumitted activist, it is enough to enter his email address on the site of the training. The multiplicity of commitments. as long as they go in the same direction validated by LFI and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is therefore rather acclaimed.

The political coloring of “blocks everything” also raises questions. Manuel Bompard declared on France Info on August 18 that he did not believe “that “after letting yellow vests pass, the demands that emerge. from this movement be positioned in the extreme right”. What do you think?

At the beginning, the movement of “yellow vests” also tended to be characterized as an extreme right movement. However. surveys on the sociology of “yellow vests” indicated that around six out of ten recognized themselves in the left or the right, while the others recognized themselves more in the left than the extreme right. Insoumise France therefore wishes to avoid seeing this movement discredited by the idea that it would be sclerotic by. the extreme right. In addition. when we watch the videos published on the groups of “blocks everything”, rhetoric is far from that of the extreme right; It seems almost “inclusive”, quite close to what LFI could deploy.