IThere are always PCF flags at Communist Party meetings. Note that they are decreasing in number, drowned little by little among those, more colorful, of the “Happy Days”. The formula will have, at the very least, been declined twenty times this afternoon by Fabien Roussel. A countersense slogan of a France which doubts and worries, of a left which crumbles and depresses, of a Zemmour with the tunes of Cassandra.
At Parc Chanot in Marseille, the city he chose for his first campaign demonstration because it embodies the “popular” and “the heart of the Mediterranean”, the communist candidate smells the mistral which carries him and has fun with it. . “There are more people than expected,” he says to the 3,000 faces that greet him, shouting. “Would the river overflow its bed? It’s a cr…