Fabien Roussel was appointed Sunday as a candidate of the Communist Party for the presidential election of 2022. The PCF had not been represented in this election for 15 years.
After Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Fabien Roussel is the second leftist politician to stand as a candidate for 2022.
After fifteen years of absence, the Communist Party will again be represented in the 2022 presidential election through its leader Fabien Roussel.
More than 82% of the members voted in favor of the candidacy of the national secretary of the PCF.
A little more than 30,000 of the 43,000 members took part in the vote which took place from Friday to Sunday by electronic means.
Their vote confirms that of the national conference of the PCF, when the party executives, on April 11, had invested their number one.
According to the statutes of the party, the last word was to go to the members themselves.
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Fifteen years after Marie-George Buffet, Fabien Roussel is therefore preparing to wear the colors of the Communist Party in the election of queen of the 5th Republic, a sign of a desire for assertion and resistance to decline on the part of this formation. history of the left.
Fabien Roussel was elected at the head of the PCF in 2018 on the promise that there would be a candidate for 2022. Disappointed by the poor performance of Marie-George Buffet in 2007, who had obtained only 1.93% of votes, the PCF had bypassed the next two presidential elections, in 2012 and 2017, each time choosing to support the candidate of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Already the second candidate from the left
The candidacy of Fabien Roussel comes in a deleterious climate for the left, at the time when it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the election of the socialist François Mitterrand, on May 10, 1981, with the support of the Communist voices.
Gathered on Sunday at Le Creusot to celebrate this event, Mitterrandie was looking for reasons to hope for a possible rally despite everything, if not with the Communists at least with the ecologists.
For 2022, Fabien Roussel is the second left-wing candidate to be officially declared, with the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The Ecologist Pole, around EELV, for its part is organizing a primary in September with a declared candidate, Sandrine Rousseau, former EELV vice-president of Hauts-de-France.
Eric Piolle, mayor of Grenoble should also be a candidate, as well as Yannick Jadot.