He’s a left French politician, several times candidate for presidency but never won.
He is seen as Fidel Castro boot licker by boomers (he is not), extreme left by right and extreme right (he is not).
He is a great talker but also a bit of an angry man which makes him unlikable to others.
Now is party is named “La France insoumise” (LFI) and they usually have very good political agendas, like at the last presidential it was something along the lines:
- create the 6th republic based on true direct democracy
- constitution is written by the French population for the French population
- give back power to the population
- once done, quit unless asked to stay president.
But because of his image among boomers and the right propaganda against him, he never won and his party suffer from his image.
The best thing would be to have his and LFI ideas without him. They need to find another leader for their image as Mélanchon is a liability for the left to access power.
We happened to have AI pictures of him as a dominatrix today in our French server https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/12001973
100% unprofessional take:
From what I got by quickly screening his Wikipedia article he is a
populistFrench politician on the left witha couple of viewsone view so bonkers most of us on the left don’t want to have people like him on the left.Great, we have a couple of those in Germany too. Have fun with that maniac.
Edit: Made a mistake.
which views?
You know what? I made a mistake. I saw his position on the Russian annexation of Crimea (which is bonkers) and his stance of France leaving NATO (which is straight up stupid) and I didn’t give the rest of the article enough attention. The overwhelming majority of what he stands for is actually pretty neat.
Edit: Again. I have no idea about French politics so don’t quote me on this.
Being anti-NATO is the default stance for Leftists, whether you are Marxist or Anarchist.
Fair play to you.
