Fabien Roussel is the surprise personality of this campaign.
The secretary general of the PCF emerged over the weeks on the theme of a return to "happy days".
With
2.7%
of the vote in this first round of the presidential election, the communist candidate comes in
8th
position, according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for Le Parisien, France Télévisions and Radio France.
Two subjects were at the heart of his campaign for several months: he promoted a left whose essence was to reconnect with the popular categories and the world of work.
The best friend of Olivier Marchais, the son of George, also valued his attachment to a “secular, indivisible and universalist” Republic.
A positioning quite opposed to the other left-wing candidates, in particular Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Anne Hidalgo.
I'm fed up with this left that makes us feel guilty when we take the car, eat meat, or insult us because we are for nuclear power.
I wish to carry a popular left, which holds the tricolor flag and the red flag at the same time.
— Fabien Roussel (@Fabien_Roussel) February 15, 2022
“We are aiming for 5% in the polls between now and the election, predicted Ian Brossat, spokesperson for the Roussel campaign last February.
“Our goal is to bring back to us the voters who have moved away from the left, those of the RN, and especially the abstainers.
".
The objective is therefore only half fulfilled for the PCF, this Sunday evening.
In the last presidential election in which a communist candidate participated in his own name in 2007, Marie-George Buffet obtained 1.93% of the vote (707,294 votes).
During the 2012 and 2017 elections, the PCF chose to support the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.