Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  Philosophy degree, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon

• Full Name

  Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon

• Parentage

  Son of a postmaster and a primary school teacher

• Occupation

  Politician

• Citizenship

  France

• Date of Birth

  1951-08-19

• Place of Birth

  Tangier, Tangier International Zone

• De facto Leader

  La France Insoumise

• Political Ideology

  Radical-left

Timeline

• Born in Tangier, Tangier International Zone. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Web Search)

  1951-08-19

• Moved to Normandy with his family. (Source: Web Search)

  1962

• Was a university student during the French protests and became the leader of the student movement at the University of Besançon. (Source: Web Search)

  1968

• Graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Franche-Comté. (Source: Web Search)

  1972

• Entered politics and joined the Socialist Party (PS). (Source: Summary, Web Search)

  1976-09

• Elected as a municipal councillor of Massy. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  1983

• Elected as a general councillor of Essonne. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  1985

• Entered the Senate. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  1986

• Re-elected to the Senate. (Source: Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  1995

• Served as Minister for Vocational Education under Minister of National Education Jack Lang in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2000-2002

• Re-elected to the Senate. (Source: Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2004

• Left the Socialist Party (PS) after the Reims Congress. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2008-11

• Co-founded the Left Party with Marc Dolez. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2008

• Elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the South-West France constituency as part of the Left Front electoral coalition. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2009

• Ran for President of France, coming in fourth with 11.1% of the first-round vote. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2012

• Re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2014

• Founded La France Insoumise (LFI). (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2016-02

• Ran for President of France, coming in fourth with 19.6% of the first-round vote. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2017

• Elected as a Member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia, Web Search)

  2017-06-21

• Led the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2017-2021

• Ran for President of France, coming in third with 21.95% of the vote, just over one point short of qualifying for the second round. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

  2022

• Led the newly formed New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) alliance to a second-place performance in the legislative election. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2022

• Term as Deputy in the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône ended. (Source: Web Search)

  2022-06-21

• Led the New Popular Front (NFP) alliance, which achieved a plurality of seats in the legislative election, with LFI confirmed as the largest left-wing group in the National Assembly. (Source: Summary, Related Documents, Wikipedia)

  2024

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk melɑ̃ʃɔ̃] ; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who has been the de facto leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) since it was established in 2016. He was the deputy in the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022 and led the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021. Mélenchon was previously elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009 and reelected in 2014. He has run for President of France three times, in 2012, 2017 and 2022. In 2022, he came within 1.2 percentage points of reaching the second round in France's two-round voting system. After joining the Socialist Party (PS) in 1976, Mélenchon was successively elected a municipal councillor of Massy (1983) and general councillor of Essonne (1985). In 1986, he entered the Senate, to which he was reelected in 1995 and 2004. He also served as Minister for Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002 under Minister of National Education Jack Lang in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin. He was part of the left-wing of the PS until the Reims Congress of November 2008, when he left the party to found the Left Party with Marc Dolez, a member of the National Assembly. Mélenchon first served as party president before becoming party co-president alongside Martine Billard, a position he held until 2014. As co-president of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European Parliament election in France; he was elected as a MEP in the South-West France constituency and reelected in 2014. He became the Left Front's candidate in the 2012 French presidential election, in which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the first-round vote. In February 2016, Mélenchon founded La France Insoumise. He stood as a candidate in the 2017 French presidential election, again coming in fourth, with 19.6% of the first-round vote. He became a member of the National Assembly for LFI following the 2017 French legislative election, receiving 59.9% in the second round in the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, located in Marseille (France's second-largest city). Mélenchon stood again under the LFI banner in the 2022 French presidential election, coming in third with 21.95% of the vote, just over one point short of qualifying for the second round. After this, he led the newly formed New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) alliance of parties to a second-place performance in the 2022 French legislative election. LFI was confirmed as the largest party of the French left in the 2024 French legislative election, where the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) achieved a plurality of seats and LFI was confirmed as the largest left-wing group in the National Assembly.

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• Jean-Luc Mélenchon - Wikipedia

  Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (French: (/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French") ⓘ-Fabricio_Cardenas_(Culex)-Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon.wav "File:LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (Culex)-Jean-Luc Mélenchon.wav"); born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who has been the de facto leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) since it was established in 2016. He was the deputy "Deputy (France)") in the National Assembly "National Assembly (France)") for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 [...] Mélenchon is a socialist republican, inspired primarily by the founder of French republican socialism Jean Jaurès. During his political career, Mélenchon crossed various tendencies of the French left, from Trotskyism in his youth to more moderate socialism, as he was in the Socialist Party "Socialist Party (France)") for almost thirty years, occupying a place on the left wing of the party, before he began a companionship with the French Communist Party after his departure from the Socialist [...] Mélenchon is an outspoken critic of the EU, which he views as having been corrupted through neoliberalism. During his 2012 campaign, Mélenchon positioned himself against the trend towards economic globalisation, which he denounced as disproportionately profiting the financial industry and "high income earners" at the expense of the poor. He insisted international organisations such as the EU threatened to "strangle the voice of the people". He supports a renegotiation of European treaties.

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...

  Jean-Luc Mélenchon (French pronunciation: ​(/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French"); born 19 August 1951) is a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly "National Assembly (France)") of the French Republic. He ran for President of France twice: he finished in fourth place in 2012 and 2017, then in 2022, he came in third. ## Political career [change | change source] [...] | Personal details | | | Born | Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (1951-08-19) 19 August 1951 (age 74) Tangier, Tangier International Zone | | Political party | La France Insoumise") (since 2016) | [...] | Jean-Luc Mélenchon MP | | --- | | | | | | | | Member of the National Assembly "National Assembly (France)") for Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency") | | | In office 21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022 | | | Preceded by | Patrick Mennucci") | | Succeeded by | Manuel Bompard") | | Member of the European Parliament | | | In office 14 July 2009 – 18 June 2017 | | | Constituency | South-West France&action=edit&redlink=1 "South-West France (European Parliament constituency) (not yet started)") |

• Who Is Jean-Luc Melenchon? All About The New Popular Front ...

  Jean-Luc Melenchon, born on August 19, 1951, in Tangier, Morocco, is the son of a postmaster and a primary school teacher. After working as a teacher for a while, Melenchon entered politics in September 1976 and joined the Socialist Party (PS). In an effort to bring the French Communist Party and the PS together, he created a federal newspaper Melenchon is in charge of the New Popular Union (Nupes), an alliance of communist, socialist, and environmental groups. [...] #### Early Life and Education Jean-Luc Melenchon, born on August 19, 1951, in Tangier, Morocco, is the son of a postmaster and a primary school teacher. He moved to Normandy with his family in 1962. He continued his schooling, graduating from the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon with a degree in philosophy. #### Personal Life [...] After working as a teacher for a while, Melenchon entered politics in September 1976 and joined the Socialist Party (PS). In an effort to bring the French Communist Party and the PS together, he created a federal newspaper. From 1986 until 2000, he was a senator representing Essone; from 2000 to 2002, he was Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's minister for vocational education. From 2004 until 2010, he was again in the Senate, but the Socialist Party's tilt toward centrism left him disappointed.

• Who is Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard left-leader dubbed 'France's ...

  Jean-Luc Melenchon has been labelled a firebrand, the most divisive figure in French politics and France's Jeremy Corbyn. The 72-year-old is the leader of France Unbowed, the largest party in the left-wing New Popular Front alliance, which was hastily mustered when President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election. [...] He was a member of the French Trotskyist movement and worked as a teacher and journalist before entering politics. Image 6: Pic: AP Image:Pic: AP A divisive figure A fiery orator, Mr Melenchon is one of the most divisive figures in French politics, enthusing some voters while horrifying others. In 2017, he ran on a platform of taxing the rich 100% on income above €400,000 (£338,000), reducing the working week to 32 hours, and scrapping nuclear power. [...] Mr Melenchon is the alliance's most prominent figure. But who is he, what does he stand for - and will he be the country's next prime minister? Who is Jean-Luc Melenchon? Mr Melenchon has been a fixture in French left-wing politics for decades. He spent 30 years in the Socialist Party and held ministerial posts before breaking with the party in 2008. He was behind a string of left-wing coalitions, culminating with France Unbowed (La France Insoumise, or LFI), which he launched in 2016.

• The transformation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: From radical outsider to ...

  Born in Tangier in 1951, Mélenchon was a university student during the French protests of May 1968, becoming the leader of the student movement at the University of Besançon. He graduated in philosophy in 1972, but politically he was a “Lambertist”, a member of the French Trotskyist movement, and after 1971 he joined the Socialist Party of François Mitterrand. With the Socialist Party, from 2000 to 2002, he was proclaimed Minister of Vocational Education in the government of the gauche [...] With the first round of France’s presidential election fast approaching, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has sharply risen in opinion polls to become an unexpected key player in the campaign. As the leader of La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France), a movement founded in 2016 without any expectation of victory, Mélenchon, a political outsider, has come to embody one of the main expressions of change in the eyes of voters. But who is Mélenchon? And what are the reasons for his sudden personal success?

• Award

  Grand Officer of the Order of May

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Marie and Louis Pasteur University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  politician

• Citizenship

  France

• Date Of Birth

  8/19/1951

• Place Of Birth

  Tangier

Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɑ̃twan pjɛʁ melɑ̃ʃɔ̃]; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022. He led the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021. Mélenchon has run three times in elections for president of France; in 2012 and 2017, and a strong third in the 2022 election, where he narrowly missed continuing on to the second round in France's two-round voting system. After joining the Socialist Party in 1976, he was successively elected a municipal councillor of Massy (1983) and general councillor of Essonne (1985). In 1986, he entered the Senate, to which he was reelected in 1995 and 2004. He also served as Minister for Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, under Minister of National Education Jack Lang, in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin. He was part of the radical-left wing of the Socialist Party until the Reims Congress of November 2008, when he left the party to found the Left Party with Marc Dolez, a member of the National Assembly. Mélenchon first served as party president before becoming party co-president alongside Martine Billard, a position he held until 2014. As co-president of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European Parliament election; he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the South-West France constituency and reelected in 2014. He became the Left Front's candidate in the 2012 presidential election, in which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the first-round vote. Mélenchon founded the party La France Insoumise (LFI, "France Unbowed") in February 2016. He stood as a candidate in the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties", again coming in fourth, with 19.6% of the first-round vote. He became a member of the National Assembly for La France Insoumise following the 2017 legislative election, receiving 59.9% in the second round in Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency, located in Marseille (France's second-largest city). Mélenchon stood again under the LFI banner in the 2022 presidential election, coming in third with 21.95% of the vote, just over one point short of qualifying for the second round.