Europe should accept 250 million ‘climate refugees’, says French socialist party bigwig

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Antoine Léaument, the communications director of a French far-left party, wants Europe to accept 250 million ‘climate refugees’.

Léaument, member of the socialist party “La France Insoumise”, was debating with Sébastien Chenu of Marine Le Pen’s Front National, on France’s CNEWS.

When Léaument spoke of the 250 million refugees, Chenu seemingly joked about European countries accepting them into their societies, but the far left party’s bigwig appeared to take the suggestion more seriously.

“This is the only solution (…) Else what are you going to do? Throw them into the sea? Build walls? Be serious,” he said.

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Within La France Insoumise, Léaument’s views are shared by the party’s leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the first round of France’s latest presidential election, Melenchon, a well-known advocate of open borders, won 19.6% of votes.