Fabien Roussel in “Le Monde”, spikes and slaps

I end the “Left of the Allocations [and] of social minima”: the exit of the national secretary of the Communist Party, on September 10, in full feast of Huma, deeply indignant on the left. The environmental deputy Sandrine Rousseau thus retorted to her on September 15: “the work value” is “nevertheless a value on the right”. If the French are familiar with his sense of formula since the last presidential campaign, Fabien Roussel, 53, has long been a discreet politician. He is almost 35 years old when Le Monde writes his name for the first time.

The review is modest: its elimination in the canton of Lille-Sud-Ouest is mentioned on March 23, 2004 in the notebook devoted to the results of the cantonal elections. The next day, the Lille candidate is again quoted by the newspaper. Asked about Alain Bocquet, the president of the communist group in the National Assembly, he thus describes the one he is then parliamentary attaché: “He also has madness. It is important for a utopian party.” A portrait which, twenty years later, could be his.

It is from 2015 that the city councilor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (North) is built a national stature. The spectacular progression of the FN in Hauts-de-France makes him an essential local political player. On November 30, 2015, Olivier Faye described the regional campaign of the candidate born on April 16, 1969 in Béthune. For this former freelancership on television committed on the side of the Left Front, “the nature of the campaign has not changed: questions of employment and purchasing power are always at the heart of the concerns of people. “

A little more than a year later, on December 12, 2016, Laurie Moniez returned to the balance sheet of the one who won: Xavier Bertrand. Fabien Roussel confides “that he has more contact with the new right -wing president than with the old left”. “It is present and accessible.” Not sectarian, the deputy is also close to Gérald Darmanin. On September 22, 2018, in a portrait devoted to the one who is then Minister of Action and Public Accounts, Fabien Roussel who is his “big friend”, confirms that he often finds him at the Bistrot: “He’s a guy Very nice … and very liberal. It’s annoying … “

” Ecolo-coco and Bolshevique “

The articles concerning him multiply after the fall of 2018 Los that he succeeds Pierre Laurent at the head of the French Communist Party. “Aged 49 years old, Mr. Roussel was elected deputy for the 20 e district of northern in June. (…) He embodies an” identity “line at the PCF, affirming loud and clear the will of Leaving to leave the shadow of rebellious France “, describes Le Monde on November 21, 2018. On November 25, when he was officially elected at the head of the party, Le Monde retains from his first speech” his solidarity with The yellow vests “as well as his commitment to give” as objective to the Communists to become “green-cocos”. His taste for the show is described on May 17, 2019, when he intervenes at the Parisian meeting of Ian Brossat, head of the PCF list for the Europeans: “” to make the ecological transition, let’s get out of capitalism, “summed up Mr. Roussel. And to launch in front of a hilarious room: “we are ‘green-cocos’et’ bolsheviques’!” “

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