Apparently, it is not the MP but the director who returns to the media for the theatrical release on Wednesday November 6 of his new documentary “Get to work!”. A kind of “Live my life” with a Parisian lawyer, Sarah Saldmann, ex-columnist of “Grandes Moules”, fan of truffle croque-monsieur, who will taste the life of “real people”, caregivers, waiters… Before being removed from the film by François Ruffin for comments made off set on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A new film, a “new political object” for the deputy from the Somme who is, according to him, a “political manifesto”. The opportunity for him to“to heroize” workers essential to society, a film “good humor in a time of gloom”he explains to franceinfo. “I come to offer an antibody film, an antidote”, common thread of his latest feature films. Except that since then, for him, everything has changed.
“I did 30 rooms, that’s 30 meetings”
Just before the dissolution of June 9, 2024, François Ruffin is at the top of the left, ready to launch a new political project. But the early legislative elections weaken him in his constituency in the grip of the National Rally. He chooses to break with LFI by qualifying Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “ball”to put support from other parties on his leaflet between the two rounds, including Emmanuel Macron's ally, François Bayrou. Decisions that isolate it from the rest of the left. He disappears from the media space, before marking his return this week.
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**The founder of the newspaper Fakir comes back with concrete facts, testimonies – which irritates some of the New Popular Front, locked up in the National Assembly to scrap the budget. “On the left, there is none who has this link today with the French”praises those around him. “I did 30 rooms, that’s 30 meetings”insists to franceinfo François Ruffin, who prides himself on having been able, at each preview, to meet elected officials, residents, and expand his knowledge on subjects, such as drug trafficking by going to the northern districts of Marseille.
Its objective is to return to the path before the dissolution, “but from another end”, confides the one who now sits with the environmentalist deputies. He takes the time to analyze the political situation, what is happening, particularly on the center left side. “After this film, we will move on to the proposal phase”one of his relatives tells franceinfo, with a horizon: spring, even more precisely, May 6, the end date of broadcast of this film. It will be time to count the entries… with the hope of transforming them into votes.
