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“Mediapart” broadcast a recording of the former MP on Friday, for whom Roussel was the parliamentary attaché, confirming the “not clear” side of this job. Despite this, the PCF candidate is calm in his presidential campaign.
You have to look at the fry he is holding between his fingers to see how happy Fabien Roussel is. The piece of potato of the communist candidate, seated at the table in the refectory of a holiday camp, shakes under the effect of the jolts of his laughter when he does not stir it without realizing it, quite explanation of sound “project for France”. It’s been an hour since the young people of this camp located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris have been questioning him. The more the minutes pass, the more they gather around the candidate, intrigued by the hubbub that comes from his table. “Come here, take a chair”, he throws at one. “Come on, now it’s Charlotte who asks her question”he said to everyone else, as if he had known them for a long time already.
The PCF deputy from the North knows how to make people as comfortable as he does. A dozen smartphones now film it. It doesn’t matter if their owners didn’t know who he was that very morning, and maybe, for some, still don’t. Fabien Roussel does the animation. He explains communism: “To believe that the human being must be the priority of all choices.” Run a: “If I am elected, no more homework!” Then takes selfies while making the sign of rapper Jul at the request of a teenager who wants to publish the photo herself on the Instagram account of the candidate. Roussel lets it go and wins a vote: “I promise, I tell my parents to vote for you.” “Pay attention to…