Fabien Roussel wants to cast a wide net. The leader of the Communist Party believes, in an interview Monday at The Express, that the left alliance “Nupes is outdated”. The left must “bring an alternative, based on a collective, which respects the unions and which is ready to govern”, wishes the one who should be re-elected national secretary of the PCF at the end of the Marseille Congress, next weekend.
Can the Nupes formed in May 2022 on the initiative of Jean-Luc Mélenchon be this “collective”? ” But no ! The Nupes, it is outdated. It is necessary to gather well beyond ”, stings the communist official. Fabien Roussel, who was a presidential candidate in 2022, claims to have seen, during his “Tour de France”, “an appetite for a new left and which is not limited to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The interview was carried out before the victory on Sunday of the dissident socialist Martine Froger against the candidate supported by the Nupes, the Insoumise Bénédicte Taurine, in the partial legislative of Ariège.
Hand held out
Asked about his desire to extend the union of the left to Bernard Cazeneuve, who left the PS denouncing the “toutouisation” of the socialists by La France insoumise, Fabien Roussel replied: “Yes! We need to talk to the whole left. It is unimaginable to exclude anyone if one wants to embody a force for progress capable of winning. »
He insists: “What will make our strength is as much our diversity as our program”. But he accompanies his outstretched hand with a warning: “I say this to Bernard Cazeneuve, former Prime Minister: our program will not be able to accommodate capitalism, it will above all bring about a radical social transformation. »