In this newsletter devoted to the news of the election campaign, we evoke every day a momentary moment of the last presidential elections, through an article of the “World”. Today, let’s go back of ten years … to February 10, 2012.
Le Monde
This February 10, Philippe Poutou has a lot of work. Candidate, for several months, the new anticapitalist party to the presidential election, he still has to forget the charism while verve of his predecessor, Olivier Besancenot, who brutally left the direction of the training. Mr. Poutou was chosen by a majority, a bit fair, 53% of the delegates. In its Ford Blanquefort (Gironde) factory, a colleague is surprised to see this pure unionist juice enter politics, tells our colleague Raphaëlle Besse Descilières.
Anyway, the workers appreciate that he has kept his natural and “the language we are talking about every day”. The TV loves less: on the plateau “We are not lying”, on France 2, in October 2011, it had chahuté the candidate until the name of his name. “For my colleagues, there was a kind of social identification, tells the worker to our journalist. It touched people. The slap that I took myself, they also took it.”
Already, between the assembly lines, infuses the temptation of the frontal vote. “It’s easier to say that it is the fault of the stranger than the capitalist system”, deplores an elected CGT. And “when the NPA says you have to regularize all the undocumented, it does not please at all in the factory,” says another. The nuance candidate: “We talk a lot about the workers who vote FN, but what strikes here is especially abstention.”
He assures that he will only brigperate once the Elysee, but the future will deny it. After obtaining 1.15% of the votes in the first round in 2012, it will be ranging in 2017 (1.09%) as in 2022. At this stage, he recorded 127 sponsorships on the 500 required to apply.