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Presidential 2022: Fabien Roussel, an iconoclastic campaign that clashes with the left

2022-02-06T20:20:45.129Z


ANALYSIS – The Communist Party candidate favors the social over the societal, is aimed at the working classes, and is uncompromising on Islamism.


So far everything was fine.

Since May 2021, Fabien Roussel, Communist Party candidate for the presidential election, has been quietly charting his course, oscillating between 2 and 3% in the polls.

It was without counting on a little phrase launched innocently last January 9 on France 3:

“A good wine, a good meat, a good cheese, for me it is French gastronomy, but to have access to this good ( …), you have to have the means.”

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From this postulate, the wokist fringe and the most left of social networks make these remarks stand out to portray the Elysian pretender as a champion of a chauvinism attached to traditions… ideologically close to the identity right.

A controversy fueled in particular by the former finalist of the primary EELV Sandrine Rousseau, and which surprised even within the communist team.

“Ensure that French gastronomy is accessible to all (…).

It's a fight on the left.

If the left is so weak, it's because it gave up...

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Source: lefigaro

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