Fabien Roussel, candidate of the Communist Party in the presidential election, was Tuesday March 29 the guest of the presidential mornings of franceinfo. He answered Marc Fauvelle, Neila Latrous and questions from franceinfo listeners.
Departure of French companies from Russia: “Let’s not comfort the dictator Putin by causing misery and unemployment”
“Let’s not comfort dictator Putin by proving him right if tomorrow everyone leaves, causing misery and unemployment there”warned Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate for the presidential election, this Tuesday on franceinfo. “I wouldn’t want it to radicalize the Russians and unite them around Putin.” The pressure is growing against French companies who have decided to stay in Russia after more than a month of war in Ukraine. This is the case of the Mulliez group which has Auchan, Decathlon and Leroy Merlin in its lap especially. Some voices in Ukraine are calling for a boycott of these brands.
Energy: “Let’s stop asking those who have nothing or little to continue to make efforts”
For the deputy from the North and communist candidate for the presidential election, “Efforts are those who have a lot who can produce them”. “Let’s stop asking those who have nothing or little to continue to make efforts”, asks Tuesday on franceinfo Fabien Roussel, PCF presidential candidate. The general manager of GRDF, worried about a scenario “unprecedented” for next winter in the event of an interruption in the supply of Russian gas, called on all the French people, in a maintenance at Les Echos, to lower their heating or to prefer showers to baths. “Those who say that don’t realize what country we live in”answers Fabien Roussel.
A useful vote on the left? “Let the French choose!”
“It would mean that there is a useless vote, useless citizens”. “Do you see how contemptuous those who talk like that are?”he was indignant, in reaction to remarks made on franceinfo by the campaign director of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France insoumise in the presidential election, a week earlier. He denounced candidates who “make the presidential election the nose in the polls”.
“Ghost” parliamentary assistant: Fabien Roussel is “not aware” that an investigation concerning him has been opened
The candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the presidential election, Fabien Roussel, is not “not up to date” only one Preliminary investigation concerning him, for embezzlement of public funds and concealment of this offense targeting suspicions of fictitious jobs, was opened by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF). “There was a press article in Mediapart and since then, at my place in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux [dans le Nord]I received no summons, no invitation to meet anyone”, he thus affirmed, this Tuesday on franceinfo. “My wife says to me: ‘But how can they say that? We haven’t received anything in the mailbox'”he insisted.
Questions from listeners
Disability, situation of civil servants, voting instructions… The interview of the communist candidate for the presidential election on franceinfo ended with questions from the listeners. Fabien Roussel brushed off a lot of topics at the end of the interview. His answers can be found in the video of his entire interview at franceinfo, available right here.
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