The candidate supported by the French Communist Party (PCF) brought together 2.6% of the vote expressed in the first round of the presidential election. A disappointing result for the Northern Member who did not resist the useful voting call on the left for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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First round evening of the presidential election, Place du Colonel-Fabien. It was fifteen years since we had not known that at the Paris headquarters of the French Communist Party (PCF). After railing Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2012 under the banner of the Left Front and in 2017, under that of France unsuitable, the PCF had, this time, decided to make rider alone. A half-missed bet since his candidate, Fabien Roussel, obtains 2.6% of the votes in the first round, according to the estimate of Ipsos-Sopra Steria. A better score than that of Anne Hidalgo, the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), who obtains the worst result of the history of his political movement with 2%.
disappointed but lucid against the accumulated score of the far right, the historical opponent of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel called, in the evening, to vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron. “Never we are getting the extreme right and his ideas, that’s why I call tonight to beat the extreme right using the only bulletin at our disposal,” he launched in front of a hundred activists and sympathizers gathered in front of him. With the score tonight, Fabien Roussel does better than Marie-Georges Buffet in 2007, the last candidate communist in a presidential election who had obtained 1.93% of the votes cast.
The useful vote on the left as emissary goat
A consolation far too skinny for activists “happy days”, named the slogan of the Communist candidate. “The return of the PCF is a good thing, but it should have done better, around 4 or 5% if there had not been this competition of the useful vote on the left”, regrets Hugo, a teacher of the Hauts-de -Seine, a long-time sympathizer of the party. An analysis shared by the executives of his political family. “For a few days, I had felt this wave of the helpful vote, deplores Ian Brossat, the Campaign Director of Fabien Roussel, and Deputy PCF at the Paris City Hall. In the end, was this vote so useful that that? We see that he especially took advantage of the President of the Republic. “
However, he refuses, for the moment, to target Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the designer of the “effective vote” on the left. “I’m not here to settle accounts. The first issue is to bare in Marine Le Pen, who may win and then, it will have to rebuild the left.”
This reconstruction will undoubtedly pass by Fabien Roussel, who has, despite everything, to make an honorable score for the PCF, even below the Robert Hue record in 2002 which brought together 3.37% of the vote.
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