Between François Ruffin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the popular clash – Libération

On the eve of the Fête de l’Huma, the elected representative from Picardy no longer holds back his blows against the three-time presidential candidate and his political strategy, which he considers communitarian. A dispute illustrating the internal and lasting debate on the left on the position to adopt with regard to the working classes.

For a while, François Ruffin refused to engage in direct confrontation with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Despite the criticism he could formulate on the political strategy of the three-time presidential candidate, the deputy of the Somme did not fail to emphasize that in his eyes, the former elected representative of Marseille “had saved the left from disappearing” after François Hollande’s five-year term. From now on, the former journalist no longer bothers with this kind of kindness. After having described the tribune as “cannonball” in the second round of the last legislative elections, the César-winning director of Thanks Boss! multiplies frontal attacks against the founder of La France Insoumise. And more particularly against his political line, which in his eyes, would consist of abandoning a part of the French population.

Relatively discreet since the beginning of the summer, François Ruffin made his return to the media on the occasion of the release of his latest book Itinerary. My France in its entirety, not half. In this one, He once again pleads for a political orientation that unites “France of towers and that of towns”. Contrary to that carried by