Nathalie Arthaud gets 0.7% of votes in first round of presidential election

For his third candidacy, the candidate held faithfully his Trotskyist and Revolutionary line urging workers to mobilize “to reverse capitalism”.

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Nathalie Arthaud had given the tone from September 2021: a campaign, it is “always the same electoral circus”, lasted the candidate of the Law Training Movement (LO), who then refused to participate in the ” Rain of promises “of its competitors in the presidential election. Seven months later, the one who assumed not to “not aim for the presidency of the Republic” harvested, Sunday, April 10, 0.7% of the votes in the first round of the vote.

The heiress of Arlette Laguiller had already been a candidate in the first round in 2012 (0.56% of the votes) and in 2017 (0.64%). Once again, the aggregate of economy has repeated, at each of its media interventions, the same mantra: “I do not want to be a manager of a system that only works well for the rich. Me, this system, I want to knock him back. “

” Need to fight “

In meeting at the Zenith of Paris, on April 3, she had returned to the meaning given to her application. “Throughout this campaign, my interviewers asked me what I was doing in this election. The ballot has never changed the lives of workers, let alone today while the economic crisis and the war that Extends placing new threats anywhere on the planet. So why vote for me? Because we must affirm the need to fight and reverse capitalism, “had toned Nathalie Arthaud in front of his audience and a red background. His slogan, “the worker camp”. His candidacy had been formalized, on 4 March, thanks to the 576 sponsorships of elected officials collected by his team – M me arthaud had obtained 637 in 2017.

In particular, the teacher proposed to allocate the work all to create jobs and end unemployment, increase the SMIC, to bring the proportional integral and to grant the right to vote to foreigners. The former city councilor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) also talked about ecology during his campaign, considering that “capitalism, the race for profitability kill the planet in small fire”. “If we renounce collective struggles, yes, we can reverse the situation,” she said in meeting. An orientation not so far from the proposals of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Fabien Roussel, that she criticizes, one and the other, with virulence: “All they explain to us is that they will be tomorrow Better managers in this system. Me, this system, I repeat it, I want to overthrow it, “she insisted on April 3rd.

/Media reports.