Léon Deffontaines, 27, is one of the lieutenants of national secretary Fabien Roussel, for whom he was spokesperson in the 2022 presidential election.
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The former boss of the Young Communists Léon Deffontaines has been named leader of the French Communist Party for the European elections of 2024, he announced on Saturday July 1. This marks a first step towards the autonomy of the party in this election.
Léon Deffontaines, 27, is one of the lieutenants of national secretary Fabien Roussel, for whom he was spokesperson in the 2022 presidential election. “I would like to thank the PCF National Council for having appointed me leader for the European elections”he said on Twitter, thinking “determined to win back the popular electorate”.
Léon Deffontaines will have the difficult mission of raising the score of the Communists, who did not reach 3% in the European elections of 2019 and the presidential election in 2022. The title of leader, endorsed by the National Council of the party, leaves room for possible alliances on the left, but this scenario has become unlikely in recent weeks.
Not just because environmentalists, who scored the biggest in 2019 on the left, are determined to go it alone. But also because Fabien Roussel wants to continue to re-expose the Communist Party, with an anti-Melenchonist line. Léon Deffontaines will focus his campaign efforts on reorienting Europe towards social issues, and on the fight against the far right and the probable head of the RN list, Jordan Bardella, the leader told AFP. .