“If you are in difficulty or in misery, it is exclusively because the correlation of forces between those who have everything and those who have little, is in favor of those who have everything,” he said in a video released on social networks. , about the call launched for weeks.

The former presidential candidate stressed that the call for mobilization is from the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), a bloc of leftist forces made up of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, and the Europe Ecology Party, the Greens, the second with the most, in addition to the LFI deputies in the National Assembly.

According to Mélenchon, the country is experiencing moments of social mistreatment, a scenario that, in his opinion, continues with the threat against people and the division of social and political movements.

The call is for everyone to be in Paris on October 16 for the march, so that injustice stops and those who have everything are willing to share, he insisted.

For the leader of LFI, the march against expensive life is in favor of the school and the hospital, and above all to be able to eat.

Also from social networks, rebellious figures such as Mathilde Panot, Clémentine Autain and Manon Aubry called for mobilization, denouncing the deterioration of the purchasing power of the French and the retirement reform promoted by President Emmanuel Macron, an initiative that includes extending the age of retirement from 62 to 65 years.

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