Although his ideology is old, he wants to be the voice of renewal.
Guest of the RTL- Le Figaro
-LCI Grand Jury
, the candidate of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, tried to demonstrate that he is not a left-wing candidate like the others.
According to him, the "
ideal
" communism that he espouses has first of all "
nothing to do with that which is implemented in Asia
", and the left, "
already so low
", no longer meets the aspirations of part of the French.
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To the question, has the left stopped talking to the working classes? Fabien Roussel thus replied tit for tat: “
yes
”. Conversely, he wants to address "
all those who have been disappointed by the left
" to "
win
them back ", but also to abstainers and French leftists who no longer know who to vote for. Above all, the candidate wants to be "
resolutely on the side of the popular classes, the working class, those who work and who are mistreated today
". The problem of the left, it is moreover “
not that it is divided
”, but rather “
that it is weak
”. "
She needs to restore hope, and I want to embody new hope
, ”he argued.
“I do not defend the universal income”
Five years after the rallying of his party to that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the last presidential election, Fabien Roussel therefore wants to prove the singularity of his project.
And does not hesitate to formulate sometimes eclectic proposals for a left-wing candidate.
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To seduce this fringe of the electorate increasingly distant from the polls, he wants to create a “
France of work and wages
”, and not a “
France of unemployment and RSA
”.
“
I defend income from work, I do not defend universal income,
” he argued.
Where La France insoumise and ecologists want to “
ban the car
”, it also wants to lower the price of gasoline by 30 cents and make “
clean vehicles
” and “
free transport
”
accessible to the working classes
.
Finally defender of balanced menus in canteens, the candidate still wants these same working classes to have the right "
good food, culture, theater and art
".
"
Everyone is entitled to the good and the beautiful
," he said.
As for his economic program, the candidate wishes to “
rebuild an industry in the country
”.
Which would pass in particular by "
a clear and net halt
" for relocations, a "
floating tax
" imposed on oil companies, the nationalization of the insurance company Axa or the introduction of the 32-hour week.
So many measures for which the claimant sometimes had difficulty in specifying the financing.
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Still low in the polls, Roussel has taken a position on the possible qualification of a candidate from the nationalist camp in the second round.
Putting there "
the finger on an important difference with other forces on the left
", the communist candidate assured that his party will always create "
the conditions so that the far right does not get its hands on the Republic
".
