"I'm not going anywhere anymore": Jean-Luc Mélenchon targets journalists and pays tribute to the Big Mouths

"I no longer meet a series of journalists." The leader of La France Insoumise , Jean-Luc Mélenchon , a special guest of the Grandes Gueules this Friday, admitted that he no longer feels respected when he is invited to answer journalists' questions.

"I don't go anywhere anymore because it has become unbearable for me, out of respect for my own personal dignity," he concedes. "It's become a mess, it's a bullfight, I'm invited to be Mélenchon. To get your stripes in the life of a journalist, you have to be Mélenchon," the leader of LFI believes on RMC .

It's odious, it's unbearable. People ask me questions that they wouldn't dare ask others. So I'm not going anywhere anymore."

This is not the first time that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has made critical remarks about his relationship with journalists. He was recently singled out by the Quotidien program. One of the members of the latter's team, Paul Gasnier, recounted his experience during the Gaza rally on Saturday, June 14. In the footage broadcast by Quotidien , the Insoumis shouts "get rid of this bastard" at Paul Gasnier's soundman, and continues: "Go away, man. Aren't you ashamed?"

But Jean-Luc Mélenchon wanted to pay tribute to the show he was invited to. L'Insoumis believes that the Grandes Gueules "introduced a style that has become a classic," but unfortunately, according to him, "the imitators haven't always been very good."

"You're scathing and biting, but it's always been a matter of mutual respect, it's never crossed the line. Sometimes, we also have the right to be mocked, it's part of political commitment," explains Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who took the opportunity to humorously slam the GG on the representation of the French. "Your pretentious side, thank you. I'm a little boy next to you. You claim to represent the people. Nobody elected them, the guys come in groups of three or four, they say the French this, the French that," concludes the leader of LFI, who, a few minutes later, had a heated exchange on the set with environmental activist Flora Ghebali .