Communist Fabien Roussel says he no longer wants “the left of allowances” – Le Figaro

During a speech at the Fête de l’Humanité, the former PCF presidential candidate cast a chill over Nupes. The boss and former PCF presidential candidate, Fabien Roussel, said declared on Friday at the Fête de l’Humanité that “the left must defend work and not be the left of allowances and social minima”. By welcoming journalists to the new site of the festival, located in Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne, the re-elected deputy said he was proud to have won one of the “15 strongest far-right constituencies” that of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux near Valenciennes. mayors not to pay their electricity bills “To be a survivor, I had to hear… There are speeches (on the left) which do not pass” with voters, underlined Fabien Roussel. Thus, “the French speak to us of assistantship by telling us that they work and that they (the beneficiaries of social minima, editor’s note), do not work”, he added. According to the communist, “the left must defend work and wages and not be the left of allowances, social minima and substitute income”. “I am not for a France of RSA and unemployment”, he insisted. Reactions in the Nupes “It is true that part of the population did not follow the left” and it is necessary “to restore his confidence”, reacted the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure. But according to him a “Republic of work” is not incompatible with “the protection of unemployment insurance”. “We must not oppose those who are in employment and those who are not,” said Julien Bayou’s right arm at EELV, Léa Balage El-Mariky. “We the Greens want to promote something other than emancipation through salaried work,” she added. Fabien Roussel explained that he opposed a measure defended by La France insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with which they are allies in the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes): “I do not share the job guarantee proposal, we are going to cut ourselves off from the working world, who works hard!” Bernard Cazeneuve, Olivier Faure riposteIn his presidential program, Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed a guarantee of employment, paid at minimum wage by the State in the sectors of ecological transition or social work for any voluntary long-term unemployed person. “Striving towards full employment requires an employer state as a last resort,” defended LFI MP Danielle Simonnet to AFP. “The subject is not to increase social minima but to get out of social minima” , also estimated Fabien Roussel. The national secretary of the PCF considered that the Nupes should go in this direction, and also “go beyond the four forces” (LFI, PS, EELV, PCF), in particular in the direction of the social movements. Because “a man on the left who draws a generally positive balance sheet from the legislative elections when there are 89 RN deputies has a little poop in his eyes”.