"
Peripheral France
", "
yellow vests, roundabouts
", must not be "
left in the hands of the RN
", pleaded LFI deputy François Ruffin on Saturday, launching his campaign for the legislative elections in Flixecourt (Somme). .
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"
I do not consider myself a winner at all, I am a challenger, there is work, a slope to go up
", estimated François Ruffin, in reference to the recent electoral results of the RN, in front of around 700 people gathered in the room. where he celebrated his victory in 2017. In Flixecourt, a communist bastion hit by deindustrialization, in the heart of the first constituency of the Somme, 65% of voters chose Marine Le Pen in the first round of the presidential election.
In the department, she obtained nearly 33%, ahead of Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“
We are in a red corner, but there is strand, like brown, the strand in Picardy, it's shit
”, scolded the outgoing deputy.
“
The workers, who for 40 years have taken globalization right in the face, responded to it, through the bulletin Rassemblement national.
Why ?
Because we must tell the truth, the RN on these economic issues aligned itself with popular demand from the 1990s. Faced with socialists who organized this happy globalization
, ”said Mr. Ruffin.
"
People wanted to be protected, the left for 40 years has not responded to that
," he lamented.
But "
peripheral France, (...) the France of yellow vests, roundabouts, the France of Patrick Sébastien, of Shirley and Dino, must be with us.
We must not leave the people who have been crushed and humiliated during 40 years of globalization, at the hands of the RN
,” he insisted.
François Ruffin said he was ready to “
lead the battle with joy and hope
”.
His meeting had just started with a marching band, before a giant karaoke animated by comedians Shirley and Dino.
On pensions, "
we must prepare for this fight (...) We have already held the trench in the Assembly by tabling thousands of amendments, Macron had given up
", he smiled.
Marine Le Pen, she has in two months of debate “
uttered only seven words
”.
He also pleaded for an indexation of median wages, social minima and pensions on inflation.
He finally called for "
popular union
", as he had done five years ago, with EELV and the PCF.