2023-09-17 21:34:49
A roulette in front of a communist stand, at the Fête de l’Humanité, in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), September 16, 2023. GUILLAUME HERBAUT FOR “LE MONDE”
Like an old world perfume. By debating with Edouard Philippe, Sunday September 17 since Humanity Day, the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, assumes returning to the fundamentals: the left-right divide, the debate “respectful” between two camps, accompanied by points of consensus on the subjects of growth, nuclear energy or the value of work. “Everything happens as if we are arriving at a sort of end to the working society”, estimates the former prime minister, before defeating the idea of blocking prices advocated by the communist. Behind the disagreements, Fabien Roussel also aims to stage two possible “presidential”while conversing with a « Edouard » let him speak familiarly. “Who knows, maybe we will both meet again in 2027? »he imagined aside.
This ecumenical weekend, organized each year by the newspaper Humanity, takes place in a particular context, after a political return marked by an objective everywhere displayed, from the left to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin: the reconquest of the working classes.
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” Popular “, everyone tried to be, during this party organized at the former air base of Brétigny (Essonne). Fabien Roussel in the first place, with his speech on Saturday focused on a certain idea of the working class, misunderstood by the government, according to him, while“she is beautiful, she is tall and she speaks French”. While highlighting his convergences with a certain left, opposed like him to the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“We speak the same language”
Guests, the socialists Michaël Delafosse, mayor of Montpellier, and Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, did not take offense at the communist leader’s call to invade prefectures, gas stations or supermarkets, launched on Thursday morning to protest against inflation.
Fabien Roussel, at the Fête de l’Humanité, in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), September 15, 2023. GUILLAUME HERBAUT FOR “THE WORLD”
“Fabien, in the world we live in, everything that is popular is prohibited”Ms. Delga lamented in front of the former presidential candidate, regretting the end of funfairs, praising hunting as one of the “last spaces of sociability in rural areas”. “We speak the same language, Carole is a thousand times right”added Mr. Roussel.
He castigates this left which is always critical of “taste of others”aiming without saying it at environmentalists, and a government which “organizes conferences to find out how to speak to the working classes”. “We both feel the need for a popular left that speaks as much to cities as to rural people”he supported from the Communist Party stand, seated next to Carole Delga.
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