He promises TO stage a “citizens’ revolution”, hand power to the people, tax the rich, save the planet and bring in the “right to silence(沉默权)” for humans and animals. He is a 74-year-old who delights Gen Z(Z世代（1997-2012年出生）). He is an old-fashioned revolutionary(老派革命者) with a fondness for Latin American populists and millions of TikTok followers. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has tried to win the presidency three times. With a pitch that finds echoes from New York to Hackney, the firebrand thinks his time has come.
他承诺发动一场“公民革命”，将权力交给人民，向富人征税，拯救地球，并为人类和动物引入“沉默权”。他是一位74岁的老人，却让Z世代欢欣鼓舞。他是一个老派的革命者，热衷于拉丁美洲民粹主义者，拥有数百万TikTok粉丝。让-吕克·梅朗雄曾三次试图赢得总统职位。凭借一种从纽约到哈克尼都能找到共鸣的主张，这位煽动者认为自己的时代已经到来。
As France’s political centre struggles, the populist right is the chief beneficiary. But a form of radical socialism that mixes vintage class warfare(传统的阶级斗争) with modern critical race theory(批判种族理论) is also thriving in the shape of Mr Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France (LFI)(不屈服法国（政党）). At mayoral elections in March the party took towns with symbolic significance. Among them was the Parisian banlieue(‘banlieue’是法语词，字面意为‘...) of Saint-Denis, won by Bally Bagayoko, who is of Malian descent, and Roubaix, a big city in the northern rustbelt.
随着法国政治中心陷入困境，民粹右翼是主要受益者。但一种将传统的阶级斗争与现代批判种族理论相结合的激进社会主义形式，也以梅朗雄先生的“不屈服法国”（LFI）的形式蓬勃发展。在三月的市长选举中，该党拿下了具有象征意义的城镇。其中包括巴黎郊区圣但尼（由马利裔的巴利·巴加约科赢得）和北部锈带大城市鲁贝。
LFI sits to the left of the Socialist, Green and Communist parties. Its citizens’ revolution would usher in a “new republic” under a fresh constitution, with a less presidential regime to end “monarchical” rule. Mr Mélenchon promises to share wealth “between capital and labour”. France would leave NATO, seek accommodation(和解（与俄罗斯）) with Russia and breach European Union rules if necessary. “We were safer during the cold war than now that capitalism is everywhere,” he said on a recent TV show.
LFI的立场比社会党、绿党和共产党更左。其“公民革命”将根据新宪法迎来一个“新共和国”，采用较不总统制的政体，以终结“君主式”统治。梅朗雄承诺在“资本和劳动力之间”分享财富。法国将退出北约，寻求与俄罗斯和解，并在必要时违反欧盟规则。“我们在冷战期间比现在更安全，因为现在资本主义无处不在，”他在最近的一个电视节目中说。