French presidential election 2022: Fabien Roussel garners rallying
The candidate for the 2022 French presidential election of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, on February 21, 2022 in Paris.
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This is the star rally of recent weeks, the former RN deputy Marion Maréchal, own niece of Marine Le Pen, formalized her support for Éric Zemmour on Sunday.
But on the left too, the battle for support is raging.
The communist Fabien Roussel, up in the polls, scored a few points on Wednesday.
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Forgotten the month of January when Jean-Luc Mélenchon presented each week a new communist rallying his Popular Union.
After having put order in the party, Fabien Roussel now aligns the rallies, most of which come from the aborted campaign of Arnaud Montebourg.
And with whom there were many points in common: “
From the start, I said that we had a vocation to embody a popular left, that of work, that of purchasing power, and a republican and secular left that defends the sovereignty of France.
»
In these new rallies, no very big political fish, but a few figures like the MEP Emmanuel Maurel and the ex-minister Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, both former socialists and both ex-supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: "
He there are more people who were of socialist culture, who find themselves neither in the Socialist Party, and sometimes a bit nowhere.
Me, I tell them to these people, the candidacy of Fabien Roussel with his spirit of openness embodies the idea that we are going to build a new left together.
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A new left for the post-presidential period.
The Roussel camp is convinced of this: the PS is over, the ecologists are divided and the succession of Jean-Luc Mélenchon risks agitating the rebellious camp.
There is therefore a place to take, even a leadership to conquer.
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