A week ago, Fabien Roussel asked France Insoumise to “review” the candidacy of Taha Bouhafs, then invested under the banner of The New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) and supported by La France insoumise, facing the mayor communist Michèle Picard, in the 14th district of the Rhône.
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After praising
the “hope
” represented by the new union of the left, Fabien Roussel expressed some reservations about the formula that the head of LFI uses in his Twitter biography: “
Candidate Prime Minister of the New Popular Union
”.
“
I don't like the formula ''elect a prime minister''
”, decided Fabien Roussel on Europe 1. Before adding: “
We do not elect a prime minister.
A prime minister is appointed.
This is why the obligatory passage is first of all to build a majority in the National Assembly and (...) to impose a cohabitation on the President of the Republic which will allow to have a whole new policy .
»
Remaining faithful to the republican line put forward during his campaign, Fabien Roussel reaffirmed that the candidacy of Taha Bouhafs, who finally withdrew from the legislative elections, “
was not the right candidacy.
Before concluding: “
But the case is closed.
»