In the 20th district of the North, the communist Fabien Roussel is a candidate for his succession, invested by Nupes. Facing him, Guillaume Florquin, of the National Rally, distanced by less than two points. A few hours before the end of the campaign for the second round of the legislative elections, the duel promises to be tight.
In his stronghold of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Fabien Roussel does not take steps without shaking hands, all smiles: a few days before the second round of the legislative elections, to win the showdown with the National Rally, the communist wants to show up everywhere. “It’s extremely time-consuming to do that, he explains. I must have seen several thousand people in the space of five weeks! Find me another constituency in France where the National Front has 60% and there is an alliance candidate running with a dissident opposite. I am the only one ! I was perhaps in the worst situation.”
And not to point anyone, no question of talking about the Nupes, or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with whom he distances himself, or even to make them appear on his campaign leaflet: the outgoing deputy drowns the fish for consensus. “Me, I don’t take people the wrong way, I don’t speak badly to them, I first want to listen to them and start from what they have in their heads to try to convince them”he assures.
“My way of doing politics is to go see people with open arms and a benevolent smile. people who suffer.”
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The National Rally candidate, Guillaume Florquin, put his side on the door-to-door, during which he slips his leaflets with the portrait of Marine Le Pen. And tries to deconstruct the image of his communist adversary. “Already, there is a lot of cinema, he indicates. People are nice to him, but since there are communists who are nice to me, who kiss me! And yet, this does not mean that we vote out of friendship. We mostly vote for ideas. He’s not just a smiling man, he’s also behind a far-left ideology!” He also taps on the Nupes which carries the candidacy of Fabien Roussel.
“Everyone knows that the Nupes is a vast deception: suddenly, they agree, suddenly, they do not agree. In the meantime, Mr. Roussel is a prisoner of Mr. Mélenchon.”
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“Fabien Roussel is a prisoner of this agreement, he continues, and therefore they will sit together in the National Assembly. I am here to denounce all this because I am sure that the inhabitants do not want burkinis, wind turbines and immigration in their territories. He would almost forget their common enemy: abstention, in this constituency where six out of ten voters did not vote in the first round of legislative elections.