France, June 7 -- Melenchon used his first presidential campaign rally on Sunday to attack the National Rally, accusing the far-right party of promoting a form of "supremacism" that seeks to divide people "along ethnic and religious lines".

Speaking in Saint-Denis, the largest city in the Paris suburbs and now a showcase for France Unbowed (LFI), Melenchon told supporters that the RN's project was rooted in a politics of hierarchy and division.

"In this emerging chaos, a new political project is taking root, amid the wars in the Middle East and Trumpism: this is what must be called supremacism, that is, a desire to establish a human hierarchy to dominate peoples by dividing them along ethnic and religious lines," the LFI presidential ca...