Mélenchon Pledges First Presidential Trip to Morocco if Elected

Invited on France 2 to unveil his ambitions for the country he aspires to lead, the candidate of "France insoumise" did not fail to emphasize his origins and his attachment to the kingdom, reports L’Opinion.

"I will have to think about it, but it seems to me that it would be good, out of respect for the past of all these poor people, that I go to my graves, in Morocco, perhaps, where I have one of my grandparents and in Algeria where I have the others," he confided, when asked about his first trip abroad as President of the Republic.

According to the newspaper, Mélenchon and Morocco, it’s a love story, a congenital link that transpires in his political life. He spent the first eleven years of his life there with his family. It was not until 1962 that he left Morocco, then an independent country, to go join the Hexagon. Since then, the memory of Morocco has never left him, knowing that he has mentioned it many times during his media appearances, the same source points out.

For example, the newspaper recalls the sentence he pronounced in the National Assembly, at the beginning of the health crisis, where he praised the merit of Morocco which, according to him, has well managed its supply of masks. "Yes, Morocco, it’s my homeland and it deserves our admiration," he declared in the Hemicycle, where he called for imitating Morocco’s experience in requisitioning the textile industry for mask production in the early months of the pandemic.