The departmental and regional elections could be postponed because of the health context.
"
We also expressed doubts with the Minister of the Interior when he brought together the party leaders
", reported Fabien Roussel who was the guest of "Talk Le Figaro" on Friday.
"
If, next March, there is still sectorized confinement and measures restricting freedom of movement, the French will not understand that we are preventing them from going out, from meeting, but that we are allowing them to go vote,
”says the national secretary of the PCF.
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Anticipating in this scenario
"an enormous abstention rate",
the deputy from the North judges that such a situation would not be "
terrible for democracy
".
Judging that one should not play with fire, because these are "
important elections
", he recalls the scenario of the second round of municipal elections last March "
with only 15% of participation rate
".
If Lille do not want "
democracy to be confined
"
under any circumstances
, asking the French to vote in this health context does not seem audible to him.
Honorable fine
However, like others, the Communist had pleaded for the holding of the first round of municipal elections.
If he makes amends today, Fabien Roussel says he has since "
heard what our fellow citizens said
" while recalling the context in which the election was played: "
Remember, it was the day before the first round.
We were in the middle of the campaign, we were fighting for the elections to take place,
”he defends himself.
In hindsight, caution is in order, this time the schedule will have to adapt.
Fabien Roussel takes his side, "
if in June it gets better, it will be done in June, if not indeed, it hits the presidential elections, so it will have to be done after
", he believes, hammering now that "
we must take into account the state of health and the efforts that we ask our fellow citizens
,
so that this is understood
”.
What configuration will these elections take for the PCF?
As much to speak of their postponement seems to him topical, as much to speak today about potential "
agreements between political forces, alliances, etc."
Seems totally out of place to him.
Aware that the announcements made are of greater concern to the French, with "
the curfew, the need for confinement, the closures of establishments and this youth who wonders what is falling on their heads
", Fabien Roussel prefers above all a mobilization for "
Those who are afraid of losing a job, those who are afraid of catching the virus and those who have trouble making ends meet
".
"
The elections, if they take place, we will have time to talk about it again,
" says Roussel, recalling in passing that the context is very different than under the Holland five-year term.
"
Today we have a very hard, very liberal right-wing government,
" denounces the boss of the PCF, for whom Macron represents "
a very Atlanticist right which harms the Republic and which turns its back on the values that may carry the right of General de Gaulle
”.
The Communist thinks that France "
should have its own international policy
" by cooperating with the other powers.
For the time being, the member for the North is fighting to maintain industries.
And if we talk to him about the cost of labor, he opposes “
social cost, climate cost and fiscal cost
”, a triple cost to be taken into account, he says, to save the industry.