This line brought a breath of fresh air to the old house on Place du Colonel-Fabien. The candidate’s visibility then went beyond the election result alone, which remained below the 3% mark. Fabien Roussel, the French Communist Party’s candidate in the presidential election, has been dropped by half of his group of deputies. These lawmakers have chosen to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon for 2027.
Between that modest score and the choice of half of his group of deputies, the 2022 sequence now seems distant. Fabien Roussel’s judgment on the elegance of the gesture, and on the phone call that never took place, sums up for now how this defection was made known to him.
The criticism targets the way the break was communicated. In the candidate’s words, the Communist deputies concerned did not warn him, not even with a call, before making known their choice in favor of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
How distant now is the time when the leader of the French Communist Party was the darling of the media. A colorful figure with an earthy way of speaking, he was then promoting an assertive and independent communism for the presidential election.
The rallying deprives the leader of the French Communist Party of part of the parliamentary support he could count on. It puts his candidacy at odds with lawmakers from his own group, already turned toward another contender for the Élysée.
According to BFMTV, Fabien Roussel said that this support"is not very elegant."He indicated that"there was not even a little phone call.".