It was in Nantes (west) that Jean-Luc Mélenchon held a meeting this Sunday ” immersive and olfactory “. A new experiment aimed at distinguishing the candidate of the Insoumis within a divided left and struggling in the polls.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched this Sunday his last sprint towards the presidential election with a novelty: an immersive meeting to deliver his speech and present his program. He projected himself towards space, digital technology and the sea, “ the new frontiers of humanity “.
” It is seen from space that we better understand everything there is to do on Earth, thousands of applications in your phone depend on space: GPS, weather, cartography… “, launched the candidate Insoumis by presenting his program concerning space while deployed on the four walls of 50 meters wide a visual projecting the 3,000 militants of the assistance in space.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged his supporters to ” political battle for the decommodification of space, for the disarmament of space, it must remain a place of peace », « questions that should be in the presidential “, he insisted.
Getting back to technical progress
After the “ vertical », « now we will start from the horizontal of the digital canvas “, Then launched the tribune, while the visual table representing printed circuits spread out on the screens.
Independence policy on internet cables laid under the oceans, artificial intelligence whose “ You do not have to be afraid “, machines which must finally “ ease the pain of human beings » : the Insoumis asserted that politics had to recapture technical progress.
Thus, the time saved thanks to the machines will help, according to him, to guarantee retirement at 60 and the effective 35 hours, then the 32 hours of weekly working time.
When approaching the last visual tableau, presenting the sea, Jean-Luc Mélenchon exclaimed: “ Look at its power, its strength, this is the exit door from nuclear power, because it contains 66 times the power we need, with the movement of the tides and the currents “. Last Friday the candidate had visited the first offshore wind turbine off Pornichet (Loire-Atlantique). He thus placed the emphasis on basic research, wishing to train “ thousands of middle managers ” for his ” ecological bifurcation », « practical and uncompromising “.
A “shock” meeting
The immersive meeting, which remained discreet on the olfactory level according to some participants, was thought of as a mobilization tool. “ Here is the world in the three dimensions in which I call you to firmly commit “, affirmed the tribune
The candidate explained why he opted for this novelty, which some on the left see as a “gadget”. For him, “ it was necessary to show in wide angle the vision of the world that we carry through the measures of the Future in common », his program for a « harmony of humans with each other and with nature “.
This ” bang to start the year is also for Jean-Luc Mélenchon a way of turning to voters who no longer know what to vote while the left is scattered in six main candidacies and cannot compete in the polls with Emmanuel Macron and the rights.
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And to reject again the calls for the union of the ” popular primary “, whose nomination vote is held at the end of January: ” We are not concerned with the misadventures of the center left, between the PRG of Taubira and the Socialist Party of Hidalgo “, pinged the Insoumis, the day after the declaration of candidacy of the first.
The famous holograms of the 2017 campaign will return on April 5 for simultaneous meetings in several cities in France. Les Insoumis will parade through the streets of Paris on March 20.
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(With AFP)