The list of the communist presidential candidate was approved with 80.4% of the vote.
The outgoing national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel was re-elected Monday at the head of the Communist Party meeting in congress in Marseilles. His list for the National Council received 80.4% of the votes following a vote.
Fabien Roussel, 53, has led the PCF since November 2018 and his re-election was hardly suspenseful after his orientation text had already won 82% of the vote in January.
“Our proposal is to build a new Popular Front to build together a free, strong and happy France”, did he declare“a pact for a free France, to regain power over money, over our wealth, over our working tool!”
“Be worthy of the trust” of activists
Unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2022 with 2.3% of the vote, Fabien Roussel was acclaimed at the 39th PCF congress at the Palais du Pharo for his truthful speaking and his pugnacity in asserting his positions against Jean-Luc’s La France insoumise Mélenchon within the Nupes.
Emphasizing the “honor” given to him, Fabien Roussel said in the preamble to his speech on Monday “to aspire to be worthy of the trust” brought by the activists.
At the opening of the congress on Friday, the deputy from the North had raised his voice against LFI, assuming his statements on an “outdated” Nupes and having to expand towards the center left. “Mind your own business,” he told LFI, who called on the Communists to “clarify” their position after their leader’s statements.
