Jacques Cheminade's Presidential Campaign
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Jacques Cheminade’s Presidential Campaign by Christine Bierre PARIS, April 16 (Nouvelle Sol- idarité)—Jacques Cheminade is running his third presidential campaign in France, much to the dismay of the ruling elites who, under the presidency of François Hollande, did their best to make it very difficult for “minor” candidates to become qualified for the race. This time around, due un- doubtedly to the depth of the crisis in the EU and in France, Jacques Cheminade has been able to address millions on tele- vision, and to talk about his pro- gram without slanders or innu- endos. As of April 10, we are in the last two weeks of the Presi- dential campaign, leading to the first round vote on April 23, and Solidarité & Progrès under the rule of “equality” in Jacques Cheminade on a campaign visit to the Port du Havre. media coverage, all candidates will have exactly the same amount of coverage and in held by 19 international systemic banks, including equal circumstances. major French banks, as well as HSBC, Royal Bank of In this context, Jacques’ main campaign themes, Scotland, Deutsche Bank, Santander, and UBS, among “Free France from financial occupation” through Glass- others. Talking about occupation means also talking Steagall reform, and by exiting the euro currency, the about “collaborators” with that system: the large sys- EU, and NATO, have received massive coverage. The temic French banks, the 30,000 lobbyists in Brussels, theme of the “financial occupation” of France and the and Mario Draghi’s ECB injecting 80 billion euros a elites “collaborating” with that system, is felt here as a month (now 60 billion euros) into the banks. very sharp attack, a shocking attack, because of the Also being covered on a daily basis, through several Nazi occupation. interviews on all national and local media, are Chemi- Interviewers are intrigued by this idea: “Just who nade’s long-term proposals to fight for the common are the financial occupiers?” Cheminade gives exam- aims of mankind as joint projects with other nations: ples: In 1979 the French debt was equivalent to 239 bil- • For space exploration, lion euros, and it was held essentially by the large • For exploration and reasonable management of French banks; today it is 2.17 trillion euros, and it is the oceans, whose depths are less known than the sur- April 21, 2017 EIR London Drives for War 37 face of the Moon, and are rich with rare metals, and former Goldman Sachs boy, is already doing it! Over a • For the development of Africa. year, if one adds 80 billion euros per month of quantita- Urgently for France, Cheminade’s program pro- tive easing given by Draghi to the European banks, and poses that once France recovers its economic and finan- divides it by 12.5, which is France’s part in the Euro- cial sovereignty from the EU, and re-establishes its own pean GDP, all this is equivalent to 125 billion euros per national bank, he would ossie 100 billion euros in year of money printing, which is more than the 100 bil- public credit per year, 4.5% of France’s GDP, in order lion Cheminade is demanding. to create a million jobs per year in a Rooseveltian Beyond these issues, Jacques has presented innova- manner—going from kindergartens for the very young, tive ideas for culture, for education, for reintroducing a to service jobs to aid the seniors, to rebuilding national high level of training in the French high schools, and infrastructure in general and building new infrastruc- for modernizing multimodal transport infrastructure ture, and great projects for the future: and the French strict-sufficiency nuclear deterrent, • Space, which is in danger of becoming obsolete. • Fourth generation nuclear power, Cheminade also debated the other ten candidates, • Fusion power, and live, in a national debate on April 4, organized by the • Robotics. private chain BFM-TV and its affiliates. This was a first While some are shocked, and accuse us of wanting ever: the front-runners Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel to use the printing press to create jobs, Jacques merely Macron, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and refers to the fact that Draghi, a counterfeiter and a Benoit Hamon, agreed to debate the “minor” candi- dates: Nicolas Dupont Aignan, Jacques Cheminade, Nathalie Arthaud, Philipp Poutou, François Asselineau, and Jean Lassale. Cheminade Exposes Phony Debate of 11 Candidates Candidates in April 4 Debate National private channel TF1 had organized a simi- lar debate days before with only the five major candi- Cheminade: I want to say something about finan- dates, which had provoked a massive outcry, so that cial markets. You are a bunch of loudmouths. You these chains felt compelled to keep up the face of de- try to steal from those who you consider weaker, mocracy. What happened was to be expected: The but the weaker are going to revolt. Mr. Fillon, you “minor” candidates bit the “major” ones, causing some talked about debts. They are unjust, illegitimate, visible damage in their poll results. Following this and odious debts, as we imposed in the case of debate, Le Pen and Macron, who, as front runners, were Greece! Re-read David Graeber and Ernesto particularly targeted, each lost a point down to 23% and Laclau, and you will see what this debt is. It is debt 22% respectively; Fillon went back up to 20%, and Mé- which has been imposed on the people for the ben- lenchon gained a point up to 19%. Hamon fell to 7%. efit of financial interests. If we do not address this The poll results for the “minor” candidates are un- problem, we are not addressing anything! known, because they are all lumped into a single poll- In 2013, JP Morgan published a paper which I ing figure. showed the Élysée at the time [he turns to candi- Cheminade was definitely able to call the shots, in date Macron]. The paper said very clearly that the particular in the first half of a debate which lasted more time was over for the constitutions drawn up to than four hours. But many others have helped them- protect labor rights in the fight against fascism, that selves abundantly, over the years, to Cheminade’s pro- the time was over for all protections of labor, and it posals, which they add onto their own otherwise-inco- was necessary to have authoritarian regimes in the herent programs as single issues. Among the candidates, future, maybe on a temporary basis—such as the seven want to lift sanctions against Russia, and six are nationalizations that you propose [said to candi- so-called euro-skeptics. date Hamon] and that they had to be imposed . But no one else has the balls to attack the rule of the markets and the financial oligarchy: This was the 38 London Drives for War EIR April 21, 2017 first polemic Cheminade launched against the two front- runners, Le Pen and Macron. He first turned to Le Pen and brought up the fact that her close financial advisor, Ber- nard Monot, had proclaimed he is “a man of the markets; our wish is to reassure the fi- nancial markets,” in an inter- view after meetings he had with City of London circles who had wanted find out what Le Pen would do if she were elected President. “How will you create the jobs you say you will create, if you accept the rule of the markets which de- stroy them?” Cheminade asked her, before setting his sights on Solidarité & Progrès Macron, saying when you were Jacques Cheminade in Le Havre, France. at the Elysée, you didn’t carry out the banking separation that Hollande had prom- the financial markets, but an economy for production, ised, because you did not want to attack the markets. and for the future. You will tell me ‘one is never sure of “The common denominator of both: you do not want one’s partners.’ That’s true. That’s why we must fight to attack the markets and you must acknowledge it.” with them as one fights with friends and with enemies.” Cheminade moved on to the question of Europe: Other key points Cheminade raised are the real fight “The present Europe is destroying itself, and the euro against terrorism, and the need to eliminate the French has become a currency of speculation which the ECB’s currency control in Africa—by means of the African Mario Draghi, a shady banker, manipulates in his own franc (CFA)—and to initiate big projects. way: passing 80 billion euros per month to the banks in Jacques Cheminade also had a beautiful and unpre- quantitative easing. That is not Europe, it is not the Eu- pared concluding statement. We must, he said, recover ropean cathedral wanted by General de Gaulle, Mr. the “happy days” of the Libération from the Nazis, but Fillon; it’s something else; it is the Europe of 30,000 not with the present institutions. We must “free our- lobbyists who betray the real Europe, and we must selves from the financial and cultural occupation of build the real Europe. today.” And I agree with Asselineau: we must leave the We must liberate ourselves once again. And for that present Europe as it is, i.e. the European Union of the we must lift the financial occupation that oppresses us, euro, and NATO which is its armed branch—not to and go for “public credit for the future,” banking sepa- jump into the void, but to create a true Europe, another ration in order to clean up the financial system, and the Europe which corresponds to what Charles de Gaulle elimination of despicable debts—for a policy to create and the founding fathers had dreamed of: a Europe of real wealth, real growth.