The first vehicles of the freedom convoys, this anti-vaccination pass movement, arrived in Paris on Friday evening. The largest mobilization is expected this Saturday, February 12, but the number of participants is still uncertain, in particular because the government has banned gatherings and promised a firm response to blocking attempts. On the side of the presidential candidates, there are currently two camps: the supporters and the wait-and-sees.
He was the first to draw out his support: Jean-Luc Mélenchon sees the support for a movement which claims like him the end of the vaccination pass and measures in favor of purchasing power.
The rebellious candidate had already largely supported the Yellow Vests and he observes in the freedom convoys a continuity of fighting, as he declared on France 2: “ They start moving talking about purchasing power, I can’t be against that. Do not believe that they put themselves in the car, at two euros per litre, for pleasure. Second, they say they are against the vaccine pass, I too am not going to tell them they are wrong. I’ll see how it all comes together. What must be understood in today’s movements is that they do not belong to anyone. »
Here are people who get in motion talking about purchasing power, I can’t be against that!
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, LFI presidential candidate
Support also from the side of Marine Le Pen, who from Toulon advised the demonstrators to also express themselves by voting, obviously in her favour:
Our company is a real pressure cooker
Marine Le Pen on convoys on freedom convoy 4 p.m.
And then the last to enter the dance of support, Éric Zemmour, via social networks where his team now associates the hashtags convoys of freedom and Zemmour 2022 on Twitter.
But among the other leading candidates, it is silence. No position for the moment from Valérie Pécresse, Yannick Jadot, Christiane Taubira, Fabien Roussel or Anne Hidalgo.
At the Socialist Party precisely, we confess that we have not been very interested in the subject, while the messages addressed to the other campaign teams remain unanswered. A wait-and-see attitude and strategic caution: no question of supporting a movement likely to slip or to condemn a social mobilization that could weaken Emmanuel Macron.