The candidate of the Communist Party tried Sunday to expand his sitting, French flag, while declining his favorite themes: work, taxation, republic.
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It was planned. For his first great meeting of the year, Fabien Roussel, a candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF) was going to shake in large French flag, in addition to the red flag, sickle and hammer. The candidate for the presidential election of April 10 and 24, very comfortable on the trays left regularly at the center of polemics, tries to leave the narrow scope of the communist label. Without renoubing the outdated perfume of a certain “happy days”, a time when the Communist Party was strong and where things were better.
Despite the sympathy he inspires some constituents, the conversion to the intention of voting in the surveys is not obvious. Within a weakened left, the Northern Member is talking about him and sometimes spends in the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo in the surveys, without passing the 4%. Sunday, February 6, at the Palais des Congrès Marseille, it was therefore a question of expanding, highlighting off the walls, and holding a very broad speech, in front of nearly 4,000 people.
Pipes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon
As usual, the northern member, who bears the communist candidacy after two presidential campaigns at the side of France Insouchaise (LFI), did not fail to launch some spikes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. By coming in his riding first, where the member of the Bouches-du-Rhône, as he himself recognized him in mediapart , did not completely successfully manage its Implantation (“things have reorganized outside of me”). Fabien Roussel worked on Saturday 5th and Sunday, February 6, to meet one by one the actors of the Spring Marseillais who federated without the leader “insou”, and sometimes against him. Benoît Payan, the mayor of the city, but also the substitute of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Sophie Camard, former Europe Ecology-the Greens (EELV), spent by LFI and now out of Ban. “Coming to greet partners that I appreciate a lot”, the latter has risen on stage to thank Fabien Roussel for “his simple and republican way of talking about the world of work”.
The Philosopher Henri Pena-Ruiz, known for his work on secularism, was also announced as the candidate’s support. After supporting the campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2017, he had already preferred the communist list of Ian Brossat in the European elections of 2019 to that of France unsuitable.
François Cocq, former “insou” and ex-spokesman of Arnaud Montebourg, was on stage: “As much to say it immediately I am not communist, no one is perfect,” he has Launched, before renting a campaign according to it “really popular” and launder “all those who prefer the patchwork of the American Democratic left to the Republican Left”.
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