"You are ridiculous !" : Jean-Luc Mélenchon gets carried away against Maxime Switek on BFMTV

This Thursday, February 9, Maxime Switek received Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Facing BFM on BFMTV. An exchange during which the politician lost his temper when the journalist mentioned a photo posted by an insubordinate French deputy on Twitter who made people talk.

Jean-Luc Melenchon agreed to answer questions from several journalists on the show Facing BFM broadcast on BFMTV and presented by Maxime Switeck. And it is a special retirement program that viewers were able to follow, just before the fourth day of mobilization which will take place this Saturday, February 11, 2023. From the first minutes of the program, the former 2022 presidential candidate announced the color : “We will try this evening to mobilize for Saturday. It will surely be the biggest social mobilization of this country for half a century“, he let go.

A subject raised by Maxime Switek annoys Jean-Luc Mélenchon

After talking about the war in Ukraine, the day after Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the capital, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was questioned about the photo posted by an insubordinate French deputy from Seine-Saint-Denis, Thomas Portes, this Thursday 9 February on Twitter. On the shot in questionhe strikes a pose with his tricolor scarf by stepping on a ball bearing the image of the Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration of France, Olivier Dussopt and Emmanuel Macron. In the caption, he wrote the following message:Withdraw your pension reforms“.”Him there, it’s not his ball, Mr. Journalist. He took this ball and who brought this ball? Labor inspectors“, launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Maxime Switek. “It’s no coincidence“, then replied the latter. “Well that’s it, we heard you, you did the job“, replied the politician.

“You are grotesque!“

No way for the journalist to retreat. “It’s your MP’s propaganda that’s there“, he continued. A response that annoyed the main interested party: “He makes propaganda why do you think? You are ridiculous ! You don’t even realize it“. And get carried away: “Now you come to get us drunk with a balloon story. You are grotesque!” “Grotesque? Downright ! How do we continue this show if you already said that I was ridiculous, grotesque“, reacted Maxime Switek. “You do as you want! If you want, you go“, then launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon. After a few minutes, the latter finally calmed down and the climate between the two men calmed down. “It’s not you who are grotesque, you’re a nice person, everyone knows that, that’s not the point!“concluded the politician.