Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1951-08-19

• Award

  Grand Officer of the Order of May

• Education

  Marie and Louis Pasteur University (Philosophy, 1972)

• Citizenship

  France

• Social Media

  535,000 followers on Instagram

• Place of Birth

  Tangier, Morocco

Timeline

• Born in Tangier, Morocco. (Source: Wikidata)

  1951-08-19

• Led student movement at the University of Besançon during the French protests of May 1968. (Source: LSE Blog)

  1968-05-01

• Graduated with a degree in philosophy. (Source: LSE Blog)

  1972-01-01

• Appointed Minister of Vocational Education in the government of Lionel Jospin. (Source: LSE Blog)

  2000-03-27

• Began term as a Member of the European Parliament. (Source: BBC News)

  2009-07-14

• Established the movement La France Insoumise (LFI). (Source: Wikipedia)

  2016-02-10

• Secured 19.6% of the vote in the first round of the French presidential election. (Source: BBC News)

  2017-04-23

• Placed third in the French presidential election, narrowly missing the second round. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-04-10

• The New Popular Front coalition, led by Mélenchon, won the most parliamentary seats in the French legislative elections, causing political gridlock. (Source: All-In Podcast episode 186)

  2024-07-07

Web Search Results

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon

  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 the movement 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 [...] Mélenchon was again a candidate in the 2022 French presidential election. He was one of three candidates placed without their consent on the ballot for the 2022 French People's Primary, a non-official vote for a common left-wing candidate; he came third out of seven, behind Christiane Taubira and Yannick Jadot. Taubira withdrew in March, and endorsed Mélenchon. Mélenchon's polling numbers surged in the final weeks of campaigning, putting him within chance of making the second round. In 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

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

  A late surge in support for the left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has added an extra layer of drama to France’s presidential election ahead of the first round of voting on 23 April. With Mélenchon now polling close enough to the leaders that he has a chance of making it to the second round, Marco Damiani traces his political career and assesses what it might mean for France if he secures an unlikely victory. [...] 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? [...] 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

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@jlmelenchon)

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• Jean-Luc Melenchon

  Family: Melenchon is fiercely protective of his private life, shunning the “personality cult” he says surrounds other politicians. According to his unauthorised biography, “Melenchon, the Plebeian”, he married Bernadette in the early 1970’s but the couple later divorced in the 1990’s. They have one daughter born in 1974. [...] Rescind the deficit-curbing European stability pact and the Six Pack of EU legislation enforcing stricter budget discipline, and to establish a new European pact for social progress and co-development.

• Who is Mélenchon and what does his Nupes alliance want? - BBC

  Jean-Luc Mélenchon dropped a career in teaching and journalism for left-wing politics in the 1970s. He served briefly as junior education minister under Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, but by the early 2000s, he became disillusioned with the what he saw as the Socialists' drift to the right. He became a Euro MP as part of a new left-wing party in 2009. But it was only when he formed France Insoumise that he broke through, winning 19.6% of the vote in the 2017 presidential election.

• 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