For weeks now, the left has been trying to put the subject of social justice on the agenda, so far with mixed success; the fight against inflation appears to him to be the best way to regain his colors. By threatening to invade prefectures, gas stations and supermarkets on Wednesday September 13, the communist leader, Fabien Roussel, broke through the government sound barrier. Worried, Elisabeth Borne gave him a call on Friday. “Calling to invade can be taken at face value”, she warned him. The Northern MP, while assuring the Prime Minister of his intentions “peaceful”confirmed to him “that if there were no concrete and strong measures quickly”, he “would take action”.
Sunday, Elisabeth Borne announced In The Parisian the authorization to sell fuel at a loss and the upcoming ban on “shrinkflation”, this practice which consists of manufacturers reducing the quantities of a product without changing prices. Fabien Roussel, informed in advance by the tenant of Matignon, saw a cause and effect link: “ The threat has borne fruit, things are moving. So much the better “boasts the one who looks with a benevolent eye on the two government measures, even if they “will not be enough”. They are in fact very far from its demands, the blocking of prices, margins, and the indexation of salaries to inflation.
Monday, on France Inter, the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) of the Somme François Ruffin, who also advocates increasing salaries, judged Elisabeth Borne’s measures “null and ridiculous”. However, he defended a more nuanced option than Fabien Roussel, a blocking ” temporary “ prices. Long-term, ” it does not work “, he added. He took the opportunity to mock the call for insurrection from his PCF rival, who like him claims to speak to so-called peripheral France. Saturday September 16 and Sunday September 17, at the Feast of Huma, “the communists were more busy preparing punches than the storming of the Winter Palace”, laughed the ex-journalist, in reference to the Russian revolution of 1917. In fact, in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), the PCF executives recognized that the exit of Fabien Roussel was only a simple provocation.
“Counterproductive” measure
LFI, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) and the Socialist Party (PS) had already stepped up to the plate on August 30. Ahead of the meeting set by Emmanuel Macron for political parties in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), they published a joint press release requesting in particular “indexation of wages to inflation”, “price blocking measures on essential products”or “the increase in the minimum wage to 1,600 euros net”.
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