"I'm going to vote for Fabien Roussel and I'm calling for a vote for Fabien Roussel," says the former secretary general of the CGT, in office from 1999 to 2013. "Happy days at least are attractive, they're promising, it's dynamic" he says facing the camera, invoking the campaign slogan of the PCF candidate, currently around 3% of voting intentions in the polls.
The charismatic former boss of the CGT castigates "all those who promise us, on the contrary, unhappy, dull, gray days, opposition, tensions" while several candidates including Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse or Eric Zemmour propose in particular to push back the retirement age at 64 or 65.
“Each time the Communist Party has had a strong political influence in the country, these are where the social achievements have been the most numerous,” added the former trade union figure, member of the International Labor Office from 2014 to 2021. , taking up an argument put forward by the candidate in recent days in the media.
"We vote first according to our convictions", recalled Bernard Thibault who had already supported in the European elections of 2019 the PCF list led by Ian Brossat.
"We do not vote according to calculations, this or that or such and such projections", he insisted while Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) imposed himself as the third man in the presidential election, far ahead of its competitors on the left, and presenting itself as "the most concrete vote to eliminate the far right".
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