Presidential election 2022: in Stalingrad, Fabien Roussel launches his campaign on the value of work – archyde

It’s raining, Place Stalingrad, in the north of Paris. What does it matter for the communist militants gathered on Sunday, November 21, at the call of their candidate for the presidential election, Fabien Roussel. Adversity, they know, polls below 3% too, and there is for them a clear pleasure to listen to the deputy from the North hammer home the fundamentals of the party: the social and the defense of workers. “It is beautiful the old left that stains, the one who does not give up changing the lives of workers”, began Ian Brossat to acclamation, echoing the criticisms of Europe Ecologie-Les Verst (EELV) with regard to the campaign he is leading.

For its first meeting since the Fête de Humanity, in September, the Communist candidate put work at the center of his speech. A current field which has the advantage of pleasing everyone among the Communists, unlike the themes of security or immigration, which Fabien Roussel claims to also address. “Some people speak of universal income, for us it is universal work that must be guaranteed”, he says, at a time when Yannick Jadot offers, for example, a citizen’s income from 18 years old. In favor of the 32-hour week, the deputy from the North proposes zero unemployed young people from 2023, an exceptional measure requiring companies to reserve 10% of recruitments for them, a public employment service guaranteeing a position or training accompanied by an allowance equal to the minimum wage.

As for the minimum wage, he intends to bring it to 1,500 euros net, wants to revalue the index point of civil servants and hire 500,000, multiply by three the income of the ISF, nationalize the BNP, the General Society and Axa insurance , implement an exceptional “Covid tax” on the profits of multinationals. “Above 500,000 euros, crac, we take everything. Does that remind you of something? No but, it’s going well no! “, launches Fabien Roussel, who can afford allusions to Georges Marchais – his son, Olivier, co-pilot his campaign. To those who are surprised, Fabien Roussel answers: “Is it communism?” So what (…) for me it is progress and the social republic. “ As for ecology, “What pollutes the most is deindustrialisation”, argues the candidate, also in favor of a renewed nuclear fleet and low-cost energy. It also proposes to invest in “Rail and river freight, TER, subways, trams”. “No more Macron coaches, long live Roussel trains!” “

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