As in 2017, several candidates will take a major oral in... a school class setting and therefore facing children.
For this 2022 edition broadcast on Sunday evening on C8, it will be contenders who have never sought the supreme function and who therefore do not know the format: Valérie Pécresse, Éric Zemmour, Yannick Jadot and Fabien Roussel.
In an extract published Tuesday by the chain, the PCF leader plays a game: classifying current or historical communist figures between "comrade" and "not comrade".
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A sequence which has something to embarrass the pretender when he has to make the distinction between the “ideals” that the latter defend and the dictatorial aspect of their policies.
While Fabien Roussel has already classified the Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the "comrade" part and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the other section, the communist candidate seems to come up against Joseph Stalin, former leader of the USSR between the late 1920s and 1953, having established a totalitarian regime.
"
I don't know how we can do it
", explains Roussel
Brandishing the portrait of the latter, Fabien Roussel admits: “
He is the same.
I don't know how you can categorize them.
There is the one who was the war leader against Nazism - the USSR at the time sent its armies to fight against Hitler.
And with the Americans, they made it possible to bring down Nazism
, ”recognizes the deputy from the North, divided on his position.
“
On the one hand, he participated in the liberation of Europe.
On the other hand, he was responsible for millions of deaths in his country with the creation of the gulags.
So I don't know how we can do it
,” says the suitor, who seems more than hesitant about the choice he has to make by placing Stalin's image between the two categories.
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“
What do we remember about him
?”, the National Secretary of the PCF asks schoolchildren naively.
“
That he killed millions of people
,” retorts one of the children.
Remark which leads the presidential applicant to place the Soviet leader in the category “not comrade”.
It must be said that the choice that Fabien Roussel had to make was perilous and could have an impact on the little music that he was able to establish in the countryside since his release on “French gastronomy” at the beginning of January.
First communist candidate to be present on the starting line since 2007, the contender is currently gauged around 3% of voting intentions in the polls.