LIVE - Presidential election 2027: the left is “strengthened” by the multiplicity of candidates, according to Fabien Roussel

Fabien Roussel, communist candidate in the presidential election, welcomed Wednesday the multiplicity of candidates who represent “different sensibilities” and “strengthen” the left. “There are three of us today on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Raphaël Glucksmann and myself. The French must have the freedom to choose the program to which they feel closest,” declared the national secretary of the Communist Party on RTL.

Denying that these multiple candidacies endanger the presence of the left in the second round, the communist asserts on the contrary that “they strengthen it (...) when we have programs which have different sensitivities. For example, I am talking about work, the creation of wealth, the reindustrialization of France,” he highlighted.

Given between 2 and 3% in the polls, Fabien Roussel is far behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann but “we are only at the start of the campaign”, he put it into perspective. He also supported the calls to demonstrate on October 17 because “we must hear this anger which is boiling in our country and which means that people can no longer bear working without being able to live with dignity”.

9:30 a.m., October 13, 2026. 187 days before the first round of the presidential election, David Lisnard's Parisian anthill is active. Before joining his Nouvelle Énergie team, the candidate is on the air of BFMTV Tuesday morning. We ask him about the high school crisis, education, the budget... Once again, we ask him to explain why he still believes in an expanded primary.

Once again, he replies that this is the only way to sort right. At the end of August, during his back-to-school meeting, we saw him leap onto the Cannes stage at Mont Cassien. In the fever of an Elvis Presley remix, he demanded a competition. “To eliminate the Macronists,” he said publicly. “Those who raised the extremes are part of the problem,” he repeated Tuesday morning, consistently.