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Jean-Luc Mélenchon

French politician, founder of La France Insoumise

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A former Socialist minister who founded La France Insoumise and ran three times for president on a Sixth Republic, high taxes on the wealthy and ecological planning.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly secular on religion and strongly progressive on culture. The profile is close to the middle on technology.

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Where Jean-Luc Mélenchon sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Jean-Luc Mélenchon

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Political views closest to Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…96%Democratic socialismSeeks democratic control of key industries, broad public ownership and universal services.96%Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…95%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…94%

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