Communist candidate for the European elections Léon Deffontaines is making his first campaign trip on Friday. A campaign where he will very often be accompanied by the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel.
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Léon Deffontaines, head of the Communist Party list, is going solo on Friday January 19 to the Renault factory in Flins to talk about the relocation of the electric Twingo and next week to Lisieux on a paracetamol production site. But once the wish period has passed – very time-consuming for a deputy – Fabien Roussel will be very present on the ground with the head of the list. Léon Deffontaines, 28 years old, little known to the general public, readily admits this. He wants “take advantage of Fabien Roussel’s notoriety”particularly to fill public meeting rooms.
From February, there will be one per week with Fabien Roussel coming to help as often as possible. “It would be stupid to do without it” confides Léon Deffontaines who is between 3 and 5% voting intentions in the polls for the next European elections on June 9. You need 5% to have elected representatives in the European Parliament. The popularity of the former presidential candidate will not be too much while competition is tough on the left, since Nupes presents four separate lists.
A happening in front of Matignon
Léon Deffontaines and Fabien Roussel will also be side by side for the operation “truth about salaries” in front of Matignon. Saturday February 3, they will go together under the windows of Gabriel Attal to denounce “the minimum wage of France”. The duo will have reinforcements: communist parliamentarians and French people among those who have been sending their pay slips to the Communist Party for a week. French people, and French women, because of the hundred pay slips arriving at the PC at this stage, two thirds were sent by women. Cashiers, public officials, workers… The days preceding this happening in front of Matignon will be strongly influenced by purchasing power on the communist side. The candidate will stand up against the increase in electricity bills in order to campaign against the European energy market, and the party will begin distributing two million leaflets for the European elections.
