Overview
- At a Thursday rally in Toulouse, Jean‑Luc Mélenchon said LFI’s lists would embody “the new France, that of the grand remplacement, that of the generation that replaces the other.”
- Mélenchon later said he meant generational succession, citing the passage from Jean‑Marie Le Pen to his successor as an example of how one generation replaces another.
- On Sunday, Reconquête! leader Éric Zemmour told BFMTV that Mélenchon “assumes the grand remplacement” and called LFI “the party of the grand remplacement.”
- Zemmour reaffirmed his support for the replacement theory and claimed Mélenchon is wagering on the “banlieues arabo‑musulman.”
- RN president Jordan Bardella accused Mélenchon of backing community fragmentation, while Mélenchon replied on X that his meaning was generational; the term was popularized by Renaud Camus and is widely disputed by demographers, and Mélenchon denied the theory in 2021.