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The rebellious deputy Eric Coquerel regrets the turn in the campaign of the communist candidate, who is under pressure “from the extreme right-winging of society.” A way to stand out when Roussel should join their ranks according to him.
The rebels had a rule concerning Fabien Roussel: “Don’t smash the dishes in front of everyone.” It seems that times have changed. Eric Coquerel proved it to us over a coffee. For the LFI deputy, the communist candidate would suffer “the pressure of the extreme right-winging of society”. How to place it “on the line of the Republican Spring”. Understand: the proponents of a very radical secularism, often very hard on Islam. The reason ? His downright firm positions on security, immigration and secularism, in contrast to a left described as “woke” by the right and timid.
But all the same. Thirty-seven days before the presidential election, it is a question of recovering soldier Roussel, who does not hide from hunting on the lands of the right. Credited with around 4% of voting intentions in the polls, the deputy from the North has managed to get ahead of the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo and is even getting closer to the ecologist Yannick Jadot. The recipe: a campaign made up of carnivorous polemics and cheerful social discourse despite suspicions of a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant.
“We would already be in the second round, if he was with us”
Enough to infuriate the rebellious, victims of insomnia since 2017, when they missed 600,000 votes to qualify against Macron. Despite the support of the PCF. Coquerel is however c…