An almost unanimous PCF. The Communist Party is meeting for its 39th Congress in Marseille, which should lead to the re-election of its national secretary, Fabien Roussel. A first internal vote in January had voted in favor of its orientation text with a large majority (82%), against an alternative text (18%) which was however carried by the former national secretary Pierre Laurent, the former candidate to the presidential Marie-George Buffet or the deputies Elsa Faucillon and Nicolas Sansu for example.
The text of his supporters is titled “Communist Ambition for Happy New Days”. The PCF candidate for the 2022 presidential election (2.3%) judges the left-wing Nupes coalition limited to conquering power and intends to continue on its “identity” line, wishing to bring the party out of the shadow of La France insoumise. He also continues to want to promote “the value of work”, a discourse that arouses much controversy on the left.
The Congress will have to vote again for the orientation text proposed by Fabien Roussel. Text that has been amended in recent months to provide a final version in Marseille this weekend.
A Communist Congress which should therefore be the opposite of that of the Socialists, which had also taken place in Marseilles and which had been the scene of deep divisions within the party. The left alliance, Nupes, should however scrutinize the meeting of the PCF. Fabien Roussel is in the sights of his allies, he who has multiplied the outings that have made people cringe since the creation of the alliance.
This week, the communist leader called for a new union of the left going as far as Bernard Cazeneuve, was surprisingly tender with Gérald Darmanin or directly attacked his allies: “La Nupes, she is outdated. We must gather well beyond. »
