Statements that should make people talk… Present this Friday at the Fête de l’Humanité, the boss and former presidential candidate of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, declared that “the left must defend work and not be the left of allowances and social minima”.
By welcoming journalists to the new party site, located in Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne, the re-elected deputy expressed his pride in having won one of the “15 strongest constituencies of the far right. » that of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux near Valenciennes.
“To be saved, I had to hear… There are speeches (on the left) that do not pass” with voters, underlined Fabien Roussel.
Roussel flirts on the right
Thus “the French speak to us of assistantship by telling us that they work and that they (the beneficiaries of social minima, editor’s note), do not work”, he added.
According to the communist, “the left must defend work and wages and not be the left of allowances, social minima and substitute income”. “I am not for a France of RSA and unemployment,” he insisted.
He thus explained that he was opposed to a measure defended by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France insoumise, with which they are allied in the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes): “I do not share the job guarantee proposal , we are going to cut ourselves off from the working world, who works hard! »
In opposition to the rebels
In his presidential program, Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed a job guarantee, paid at minimum wage by the State in the ecological transition or social sectors for any voluntary long-term unemployed person.
Similarly, “the subject is not to increase social minima but to get out of social minima”, estimated Fabien Roussel.
The national secretary of the PCF considered that the Nupes should go in this direction, and also “go beyond the four forces” (LFI, PS, EELV, PCF), in particular in the direction of the social movements. Because “a man on the left who draws a generally positive balance sheet from the legislative elections when there are 89 RN deputies has a little poop in his eyes”.
Asked about the deputy François Ruffin, who also believes that LFI must speak more to the working classes in the countryside, Fabien Roussel agreed: “I led the same campaign as him. I was not the only one not to have Jean-Luc Mélenchon on my leaflets…”