• Fabien Roussel will be the first Communist candidate for a presidential election since 2007, he launched his campaign with an outdoor meeting this Sunday.

  • The candidate has detailed and partly quantified his proposals to improve the purchasing power of the French.

  • He also largely flattered the ego of the Communists.

There are not that many candidates who can bring together perhaps a thousand supporters for an outdoor rally, in the rain and cold of a Sunday in November. Fabien Roussel and the Communist Party are one of them. It is not nothing: the PCF is not any more the party of mass that it was and to predict to him 5% with the presidential one seems very risky today… But this Sunday, place Stalingrad, in the 19th district of Paris , all that does not weigh very heavy. Fabien Roussel underlined this, believing that "this show of force would count in the weeks and months to come".

Let it be taken for granted: there will be a Roussel ballot on April 10 in the polling stations on the day of the first round.

Even if the PCF says it wants to work for a "left majority", the union seems referred to legislative.

Even Pierre Laurent, the former national secretary of the PCF, beaten by Fabien Roussel in 2018 on a more autonomous line, says: “We decided to have a presidential candidacy so let's go.

But we will not be able to win alone, ”warns the senator from Paris.

Roussel takes out the checkbook

Basically, the deputy from the North did not go back to what makes his "different little music on the left", as his campaign manager Ian Brossat calls it: his support for the police during the demonstration on May 19 in front of the 'Assembly, or its support for hunting, for example. This was not the place: the rally was about purchasing power, and the audience was served. Fabien Roussel wants first and foremost to increase wages and blasted those who support a universal income "and the granting of allowances that would replace wages. It's not my left. My left believes in work and wages ”.

To do this, the Communist candidate for the Elysee promises not only an increase in the minimum wage of 20%, but also an indexation of other salaries to inflation.

Still on this subject, "the State will have to set an example" and the civil servants' index point will be upgraded.

For those who are unemployed, Fabien Roussel announces "universal work" and hires with a vengeance: 500,000 more civil servants.

Of which 100,000 new hires in public hospitals;

100,000 others in public nursing homes;

90,000 more teachers;

15,000 researchers;

30,000 tax officials against fraud and tax evasion;

25,000 magistrates… And 1 million jobs over five years thanks to the reindustrialization of the country.

Taxes and nationalizations

The national secretary of the PCF of course does not see costs but investments for France. Nevertheless, to finance all of this, Fabien Roussel is also not going dead hand here. He announces a reestablishment and a tripling of the ISF (15 billion euros), the end of tax exemptions granted to multinationals "under Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron" (123 billion), but also a withholding tax for multinationals "Before their money goes abroad".

This Sunday, Fabien Roussel wanted to redo the value of work a value on the left, "by giving back meaning to work" by placing it "at the service of human development".

He attacked "the right and the extreme right" which wants to increase wages "without specifying that they will be paid by ourselves", that is to say by lowering or removing contributions.

When one is astonished to hear the communist leader speak of a "lower charges" for companies, as the right wing speaks of, he does not speak of contributions but "of the cost of energy, insurance and banks. ".

This is why he wants to nationalize several banks and insurance companies as well as EDF and Engie "to have the public levers to support companies and influence the choices of multinationals".

Communists so what?

“I can already hear the cries of the liberals, the Medef, the profiteers of the crisis who will say to me: 'But these measures that you are announcing, it is communism!' I will answer them: 'So what? What we want is the Social Republic, and this is only the beginning! It did not take more to convince a public visibly weaned from communism, in any case not to have had a representative during the last two presidential elections. To add to the table, Fabien Roussel did not deprive himself of a small reference to Georges Marchais by announcing a temporary Covid tax on companies “Above 500,000 euros in profits, crac, I take everything! Does that remind you of something? Well we start again. "Or on the" French product ".

Everything was in fact there to make vibrate the pride of being a Communist.

Perhaps a way of affirming a difference at least partisan with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, that this time the PCF does not support?

The reference to the heyday of the PCF is nested even in Fabien Roussel's slogan: "The challenge of happy days", a reference to the program of the National Council of the Resistance of 1944, largely inspired by the Communists of the time.

Before that, the Communist candidate still managed to make a rainy autumn Sunday happy for his activists.

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