Barbara Gomes defends Fabien Roussel, “a hard worker”

Asked about the popularity of communist candidate Fabien Roussel among right-wing elected officials and voters, his spokeswoman Barbara Gomes was pleased that he was “a candidate who makes people talk about him, who talks about subjects that were no longer talked about” and whose left did not usually make it a priority.

The 11 p.m. guest also responded to the Mediapart article, published on Sunday February 20, reporting suspicions of a fictitious job for Fabien Roussel when he was paid as a parliamentary assistant between 2009 and 2013. “We saw the way the article was written, just the title. I who was a parliamentary collaborator, I can tell you that it is not knowing how parliamentary assistants work (…). He’s a hard worker, always has been. The Communist Party is a party which has, in its leaders and in its militants, people who work and who also have political activities. It’s a hell of a sacrifice of privacy, weekends (…) to be able to do both“, she continued.