Everyone knew the department was going to change. It was mathematical, logical, unstoppable. Since the municipal elections, Val-de-Marne had been living its last communist hours. In 2020, the reconquest of Villejuif by the PCF had not compensated for the loss to the benefit of the right of Champigny-sur-Marne, Choisy-le-Roi or Valenton. Sunday, this right united in the center, that of Valérie Pécresse, president of the region, won three cantons, in Champigny and in Choisy, obtaining a clear majority of 28 elected out of 50. National secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel surrendered in the night in Ivry, to speak to the militants, to the executives, to tell them that the party was at their side. Christian Favier, the outgoing president of the department, was not there. Fatigue perhaps, weariness no doubt. A heartbreaking loss for him,who had been in charge for over twenty years.
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Christian Favier hoped for an unexpected rebound, a gesture from the inhabitants.
But nothing.
Silence.
His only response was an abstention.
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