ROUSEL. PCF candidate in the presidential election, Fabien Roussel wants to focus on youth and training by offering a minimum income. The communist is ahead of socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo in the polls.
The essential
- Located on the far left of the political spectrum, Fabien Roussel presented himself as a candidate for the PCF nomination on March 13, 2021, with a view to participating in the presidential election of 2022. He officially became the PCF candidate in May 2021, after an internal consultation of the party. This is his first presidential bid. Fabien Roussel, to justify his candidacy, explains that he was disappointed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2017, to which the PCF had joined in 2017.
- Local elected representative and national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel wishes, for his campaign, to engage in favor of youth. With his “caravan of happy days”, the PCF candidate travels the roads of France to present his ideas, in the forefront of which are youth and training.
- In Fabien Roussel’s campaign program, security issues are also addressed, as are environmental protection and working conditions.
- In the polls, he is credited with 3 to 5% of voting intentions in the first round. A score that would place him ahead of the Socialist Party candidate, Anne Hidalgo.
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Fabien Roussel will block the far right in the second round
March 24 campaign chronicle. 7:06 p.m. “I will call to block the far right.” These words are those of Fabien Roussel in Le Parisien on Tuesday March 22. The candidate of the French Communist Party has said bluntly that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron if he is opposed to Marine Le Pen in the second round as the latest polls suggest.
According to him, “racist remarks” cannot prevail: “For me, it is clear, and it is a difference that I have on the left, I will never let the far right get their hands on the Republic. I will never let racist and anti-Semitic remarks take over.” Fabien Roussel believes that this is his priority: “My problem is first of all that.”
The communist candidate launches his Apé’Roussel to fight against abstention
March 24 campaign chronicle. 4:06 p.m. To fight against abstention, everyone has their own method. While the executive promises to multiply initiatives in this direction as the first round of the presidential election approaches, the candidate of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, had an idea that was original to say the least: the Apé’Roussel . Friends then, what is it? According to RMC, the PCF candidate should organize events to fight against abstention and mobilize his electorate, in village squares, in front of buildings in urban areas, and at the exit of metro stations in cities.
At a meeting in Nantes on March 21, Fabien Roussel explained more precisely what the French could do there: “It allows political discussions to be more convivial.” Indeed, its activists will be in charge of drinks and crisps. The candidate intends to multiply these events: “Between the first round, let’s organize aperitifs every evening to present our program in a friendly atmosphere. And with moderation on drinks!”
Latest poll: 3% of voting intentions for Fabien Roussel
March 23 campaign chronicle. 4:50 p.m. The latest poll, conducted by Harris Interactive and released Wednesday, March 23, credits Fabien Roussel with 3% of voting intentions for the first round of the 2022 presidential election. The candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF) is just behind the ecologist Yannick Jadot (5%), and ahead of the socialist Anne Hidalgo (3% ), even if he remains far from the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon (14%).
If the left as a whole remains estimated at a historically low level, the campaign of the communist candidate and the themes it carries (work, wages, reindustrialization, etc.) mark a noticeable return to the discourse of the communists in the political landscape. After fifteen years of scarcity, Fabien Roussel’s candidacy for the presidential election is the PCF’s first since Marie-George Buffet in 2007.
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What is Fabien Roussel’s program?
Defending the ideas of the PCF, Fabien Roussel has decided to focus his campaign on the protection of vulnerable people, especially young people. It proposes a reinforcement of the means dedicated to education in order to offer a quality school system to all. He wishes to proceed, if he is elected President of the Republic, with the recruitment of 90,000 new civil servants in the National Education so that the classes do not exceed 20 to 25 pupils. In the same vein, Fabien Roussel wishes to offer an autonomy allowance to young people aged 18 and over. Fabien Roussel has also undertaken to create a local police force with 30,000 members. The candidate does not turn away from the subjects traditionally addressed by the PCF, such as the question of employment and the improvement of the working conditions of employees and civil servants. See Fabien Roussel’s full program on its website.
When did Fabien Roussel declare himself a presidential candidate for 2022?
2022 is the first presidential election in which Fabien Roussel participates. His candidacy was endorsed by the party, following an official consultation that took place during the month of May 2021. Fabien Roussel then becomes the first candidate to compete under the PCF banner for the presidential election, since the 2007 elections. where the candidacy of Marie-George Buffet had collected 1.93% of the votes. Recall that the PCF had joined the Left Front and supported the candidate of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, during the presidential elections of 2012 and 2017.
What are the poll results for Fabien Roussel?
According to various projections, the polls credit Fabien Roussel with 2 to 3% of the votes, i.e. very slightly above Nathalie Arthaud, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate, and Philippe Poutou, the NPA candidate. However, he remains behind the candidate of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Fabien Roussel sent his statement of assets on February 20, 2022 at the Constitutional Council, a mandatory step to validate his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election. to a loan and if the first is fully paid and represents a value of €180,000, for the second the politician still has to repay €92,770. On eight bank accounts, checks and savings, Fabien Roussel accumulates a little more than €16,000 but appears in the red, short of 219 euros, on one of these accounts on the date of the declaration. The official document also asks the candidate to specify the vehicles in his possession, also Fabien Roussel indicates to be the owner of a Smart FortTwo of 2001 today evaluated at just 2000€.
The other part of the declaration of assets concerns the remuneration received by the candidates, those specified by Fabien Roussel relate only to the elective functions and mandates exercised on the date of the declaration and the candidate’s hats are varied. As a deputy from the North, the politician has received €70,676 annually and taxable since 2017, a sum to which must be added €3,277 received each year between 2017 and 2020 for his role as delegate municipal councilor and €1,314 annually for his function of municipal councilor which he has exercised since April 2020. Between 2017 and June 2020, Fabien Roussel also received €2,443 per year for his mandate as community delegate, but since July 2020 this remuneration has fallen to €2,176.
Short biography
Born in Béthune on April 16, 1969, Fabien Roussel began his professional career as a journalist. His political commitment took shape in high school, where he joined the Movement of Young Communists of France. In 2000, he was entrusted with the management of the PCF federation in the North. After a failure in the municipal elections of 2004, he was elected municipal councilor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. Three years later, he was elected in the second round deputy of the 20th district of the North. On this occasion, he joined the Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Committee of the Lower House. In 2018, Fabien Roussel succeeded Pierre Laurent as national secretary of the PCF. In May 2021, he was invested by the PCF to become a presidential candidate for 2022.