Not “married” to Jean-Luc Mélenchon: the leader of the PCF and Nupes candidate in the North, Fabien Roussel, marked his distances with the Insoumis leader on Thursday, while sounding the mobilization for a majority on the left in the Assembly national.
“I was asked the question during this campaign: so you are with Mélenchon, are you married with?”, Launched the candidate invested by New Popular Ecological and Social Union in the 20th district of the North, during a public meeting. in his stronghold of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. “The choice we have made is to elect the most left-wing deputies, but tomorrow we will each have our group in the Assembly, our independence, our autonomy”, “we will not have a single party”, he developed in front of an audience of a hundred people.
Disagreements over the font
“I will never mix things up by saying that the police kill,” he stressed in particular, in reference to the controversial remarks of Jean-Luc Mélenchon after the shooting death of a young passenger under police fire in Paris. .
“We need better trained police and gendarmes, in sufficient numbers, to guarantee our peace”, he insisted, “under no circumstances will I speak like that, ever”.
“Nothing is over”
He had previously sounded the “mobilization of the working classes” and “youth” for a left-wing parliamentary majority for the “first time in 25 years”. “We have change at our fingertips,” he said.
“I’ve heard too many people telling me ‘anyway, it’s over, Macron is elected and that won’t change.’ Nothing is over, it’s just the opposite”, he pleaded, designating abstention as “the main adversary”. “It is not the President of the Republic who makes the laws (…) it is we, in the National Assembly, who decide (…) the color of the Prime Minister”, he said. for follow-up.
“We have the possibility, immediately, to increase wages and pensions”, to have “a government which thinks of the world of work, of the bills, of the price of the caddy”, he affirmed.
Good dynamic
Faced with the good dynamics of the Nupes in the polls, “it’s a little bit of panic at the Elysée. Now they are giving us small checks here and there,” he also told AFP on the sidelines of the meeting.
The unfortunate presidential candidate is challenged in his constituency by a dissident, the ex-communist Eric Renaud, supported by local Insoumis militants. In 2017, he was elected with 63.88% of the vote, but was only slightly ahead of the RN candidate in the first round.