Mr. Roussel links the discontent of young people and that of households facing bills to an economic policy choice he considers exhausted.
These remarks come in a context of lasting social protest, as the PCF candidate intends to weigh in on the presidential debate.
He contrasts supply-side policy with a stimulus and a rise in the minimum wage, accompanied by wage indexation.
According to him,"supply-side policy has not worked"and there must be"a stimulus policy."For high school and university students, the government has"put crumbs on the table,"he said.
"I called for the shearing to change sides, for the rich to be sheared and for us finally to recover the money that is ours,"Fabien Roussel said.