“It’s an extremely courageous choice,” greets communist Fabien Roussel

The resignation of Aurélien Rousseau “shows the political crisis in which we are today”, believes the national secretary of the French Communist Party.

“It’s an extremely courageous choice on his part,” Aurélien Rousseau is a man “faithful to its values”, greeted the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel on Wednesday December 20 on franceinfo, a few minutes after the resignation of the Minister of Health. The latter had promised Tuesday that he would leave office if the immigration law was passed.

“This is the first time that he had such responsibility in a sector that he knows well since he was director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in Île-de-France, he was also at Matignon before as chief of staffrecalls Fabien Roussel, “so I imagine that it must be heartbreaking for him. But at the same time, he is faithful to his values, faithful to his convictions, faithful to his commitment to politics for France”.

The “dykes are falling”

The secretary of the PCF “take off your hat” to the now ex-Minister of Health, but also wishes to point out that this resignation “shows the political crisis we are in today”. Fabien Roussel “think of all those members of the majority who abstained or who voted against this text”.

Out of 170 Renaissance deputies, 131 voted for, 20 voted against and 17 abstained. “Some of them”, during the legislative elections of June 2022, “were facing deputies from the National Rally (RN), they were elected as a bulwark against the extreme right (…). Today, these deputies realize that these dikes are falling and that this majority rather serves as a stepping stone for the far right”estimates the national secretary of the PCF.

We will not give an inch on this ground. We do not want France to fall into the extreme right.

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF

on franceinfo

Fabien Roussel, who co-wrote a column on September 11 to regularize undocumented workers with majority deputies, including Stella Dupont and Sacha Houlié, who voted against the immigration law, therefore calls on all elected officials disappointed by the adoption of this law “come closer in the hours, in the days to come, to build the broadest progressive Republican gathering”.

A union of elected politicians from all sides to call “the President of the Republic (…) not to promulgate this text. We will support all the mobilizations which will take place in the hours, in the days which come against this text of law, and we will always continue to mobilize to ensure that there is reparation, that there is a dignified reception policy for all those who come to our country.”