2027 presidential election: despite the defections, Fabien Roussel (PCF) will go “to the end”

It is a commitment: he will not withdraw. Fabien Roussel affirmed on Sunday that he would go “to the end” of his presidential candidacy, despite the choice of several communist deputies to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon, declared the boss of the PCF on ICI and franceinfo, recalling that the Communist Party had made the “democratic choice” to “designate him as (its) candidate”. However this week, nine deputies from the communist and overseas group (including three members of the PCF) announced their support for the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, qualified in all the polls for a second round against Marine Le Pen, when Fabien Roussel is credited with 2% to 3% of voting intentions.

Defections which the communist leader “would have done without” and which he “regrets”, he admitted, because “in a political family, when there are choices that are made, we respect them, it is a question of honor in politics”. Determined to maintain his candidacy, Fabien Roussel highlighted his “differences” with the Insoumis tribune, in particular on nuclear energy. But he also estimated that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon alone (...) would not make more than 30%” and therefore that with him, “the left will never win” against the nationalist right.