The communist candidate at the Elysée will have to face the candidate of the national rally in the second round, Sunday June 19, in the 20th district of the North.
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Defeated in the first round in the race at the Elysée, the Communist Fabien Roussel is in better posture in the battle of the legislative elections. The outgoing deputy of the 20
Despite the political and electoral agreement which he forged in a high struggle between the Communist Party (PCF) and La France Insoumise (LFI) for the legislative elections, Fabien Roussel faced the dissident candidacy of Eric Renaud (8.7 % of the votes), who claimed the support of local activists from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party. A thorn in the foot of the national secretary of the PCF and a crumbling factor of the voices on the left, especially since this rival has never chewed his words against the outgoing deputy. “He chats, he speaks a lot on TV, but all this has no concrete effect”, and he presents a “non-balance sheet”, notably declared Eric Renaud to La Voix du Nord .
“Playmobil” against “Pantin”
The field was decidedly well occupied on the left with the candidacy, for the Radical left party (PRG), by Bruno Duquesne (1.21 % of the votes in the first round), a teacher claiming thirty years of local political activism and Associative.
The danger, now, only comes from the national rally, whose candidate, Guillaume Florquin, will face Mr. Roussel on June 19. In 2017, the National Front had arrived in second place in the first round, less than one point from the communist candidate (22.65 % against 23.61 %), which had already faced France’s competition Insoumise in the person of David Richer (9.28 %). At the time, Marine Le Pen had obtained 56.02 % in the second round of the presidential election in the constituency, score that she improved this year (60.04 %) after arriving in the first round.
Fabien Roussel also had to deal with the candidacy of Delphine Alexandre (14.69 % of the votes expressed, but only 5.71 % of registrants) on behalf of the Republic on the move. This assistant to the mayor of Valenciennes had invetely invete it by writing on on Twitter : “Fabien Roussel calls me” Playmobil to Macron “; what about a Pantin de Mélenchon who sold his party?”
In order not to become such a “puppet”, Mr. Roussel does not only aim at his re -election, but also the possibility of constituting a communist parliamentary group – it is necessary that his party manages to have at least fifteen representatives elected. As he said and repeated at the time of negotiations with LFI, such a group aims to bring the ideas of the PCF to life in the hemicycle, and in particular the promotion of nuclear energy that the Communists are the only ones to defend with force within the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts).