The congress of the French Communist Party ends this Monday in Marseille. A symbolic moment, a little over a century after the first congress of the PCF which had already been held in Marseille. Unsurprisingly, Fabien Roussel should be reappointed to the post of national secretary, the Communists favoring his “free electron” side of the Nupes, which does not please all his partners in the union of the left.
Fabien Roussel opened the Marseille congress on Friday with a nod of the chin: ” mind your own business “, he replied to the critical voices coming in particular from rebellious France. His call to go beyond the Nupes and to expand the union of the left, particularly on the side of the dissidents of the Socialist Party, had indeed been particularly tense.
But the first secretary of the PCF does not care. The deputy from the North plays a score that is his own and has earned him a popularity not seen for a long time in the communist ranks: defense of the value of work, of nuclear power, of the authority of the State. Fabien Roussel loves to play the opposite way with his partners and does not spare his efforts to exist in a Nupes designed by rebellious France.
The boss of the PCF thus never misses the opportunity to provoke Jean Luc Mélenchon and his troops. ” We decide democratically, we “He quipped this weekend, referring to the appointment without a vote of Manuel Bompard at the head of LFI at the end of last year.
Puts him before the legitimacy conferred on him by the almost absolute confidence of his party, while Olivier Faure, for example, came out weakened from the Socialist Congress. Because Fabien Roussel does not hide it: he wants to stand again for the 2027 presidential election… and why not as the sole candidate of the united left.
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