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Young woman distributing leaflets at the 84th Feast of Humanity, September 14, 2019. STEPHANE OF SAKUTIN / AFP

The Humanity Festival ends this Sunday, September 15th, in La Courneuve, in the suburbs of Paris. On the agenda of the traditional rendezvous of Communists, as always, concerts, debates and political speeches. Yesterday, Saturday, the PCF's first secretary, Fabien Roussel, reached out to other leftist forces. The score of his party to the Europeans forced him to review his strategy. What do leftist activists think? Answer in the alleys of the Feast of the Humanity.

" Together we can win the municipal and beat the right and the far right ." This is Saturday Fabien Roussel, the first secretary of the PCF, who defended until now an independent communist candidacy at each poll.

I call to work for the union, the union of the people of France, the union of left forces and ecologists.

Fabien Roussel, first secretary of the PCF 15/09/2019 Listen

The union of the left from the first round of municipal elections, wherever possible, as proposed by Fabien Roussel, Adrien Champouny, 23 years old, member of Jeunesses Communistes, is for the principle, but he remains skeptical.

" It's complicated, " he explains, " because the times when we try to find ourselves behind a candidate to try to make a unit as we did with Jean-Luc Mélanchon for the presidential elections, in the end, that prevents a little bit from existing, from passing on our own message. "

" Yes, it's feasible "

So for the rally to be accepted by all, Boris Petrov, a former communist with the Rogue, has a solution. According to him, we must " stop being in the old patterns of the left, devices that decide between them that will be the union between PS, PC, stuff and stuff, and then go on a program that goes chat with people The only way out is to stop all our shenanigans. It's been 60 years that I militate, I'm tired! "

To leave the base is also what this socialist sympathizer who does not want to give her name wants. For her, the union of the left, the municipal " yes, it is feasible, it is even the right opportunity, because when we are local, we can only live together, we can only go to collective and common ".

It remains to convince the Greens, the only party left to have made a good score to the Europeans, and for the moment, prefers to leave under their own colors. " Our belief is that what was the political offer of the left today faces theological, ideological impasse ... Our contribution to the union as ecologists is clarity. . Explained David Cormand, the boss of Europe-Ecology-the Greens.

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