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Fabien Roussel will not run in the elections “in alliance with LFI”

The general secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, estimated this Thursday, October 24, that without the New Popular Front (NFP) he would have retained his deputy seat in June during the early legislative elections.

“If I had to represent myself, it would not be in alliance with LFI,” argued on Thursday the communist Fabien Roussel, who lost his seat as a deputy for the North in June, specifying that this position “only compromises him).” , in an interview with Le Parisien.

“If I had not made this alliance, I would have maintained my position,” believes the number one of the PCF, a member of the New Popular Front (NFP), created the day after the dissolution with the PS, EELV and LFI to lead the legislative battle.

Roussel points out “the identity struggle” led by LFI

“This NFP agreement results in (Sandrine) Rousseau being elected in the first round (in Paris) and Roussel being defeated. This must raise questions for us,” continues the failed candidate for the 2022 presidential elections, according to which “the alliance, as it was constructed, does not allow you to win.”

“It allows great results in large cities, but small ones in rural areas and sub-prefectures. He even made the RN vote!”, addresses Fabien Roussel.

The general secretary of the French Communist Party lost in June to an RN candidate in the first round of the legislative elections, in a northern constituency controlled by the PCF since 1962.

Fabien Roussel also claims to have received numerous testimonies telling him “Fabien, we love you, but Mélenchon, we don’t”, according to him in particular due to the “identity struggle” led by LFI, at the same time “sesame in the suburbs” but “a contrast with rurality.”

“I do not completely reject the union of the left, but it must be carefully weighed because we can build it in another way,” adds the communist leader, who says that it “raises questions” about the departure “of the principle of single candidacy, while in the legislative elections as well as presidential elections. “I say I wonder,” he insists.

This Monday, Fabien Roussel asked Michel Barnier to hire 600,000 civil servants, lamenting “the greatest austerity cure ever imposed.”

Author: Matthieu Heyman with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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