Léon Deffontaines, head of the PCF list for the European elections, called on the left to make the “social question” a campaign priority.
According to him, left-wing parties are losing voters because they no longer take a position on this subject.
He also castigated the electoral strategy of the RN, affirming that the far-right party is a “falsifier of the social question”.
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“The left, I think, has forgotten and despised this part of the population.” Guest of the TF1 morning show, this Friday, May 3, Léon Deffontaines, head of the list of the PCF and the United Left in the European elections, returned to the open letter he addressed to Colombe, voter of the National Rally. Regretting that the left-wing parties no longer position themselves on the “social question”he called for the subject becomes a campaign priority again.
During a meeting of Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen in Perpignan, Wednesday May 1, Colombe, the sixty-year-old confided her financial difficulties to finish the month and find work. “We’re in a crazy world. I’m in the RSA. We’re having a hard time living. We all vote RN here. We’re all angry”, she said into Paul Larrouturou’s microphone, her voice choked with emotion, believing that only the RN responded to her concerns. A dismay to which the head of the communist list subsequently tried to respond in an open letter, claiming to want “give a hand” to RN voters.
“We’re in the wrong campaign”
“Today, when I see the start of this electoral campaign where the left has completely forgotten social issues, I think it’s dramatic”affirmed Léon Deffontaines at the microphone of TF1, this Friday, therefore calling all the heads of the lists “to make the social question our priority again.” The candidate, who currently collects 3% of voting intentions, behind the lists of the Socialist Party (13.5%), the Insoumis (7.5%) and the Ecologists (7%), according to the daily poll of our partner Ifop-Fiducial, estimated that the other left-wing forces do not respond to the main concerns of the French.
“We are campaigning on the wrong campaign when we campaign on any subject other than what is the primary concern of the French”affirmed Léon Deffontaines. “The European campaign is not the campaign for Palestine, for Ukraine or whatever. It is above all a campaign for everyday life, for the purchasing power of the French. Electricity bills are Europe“gave the communist representative as an example.
If the RN qualified for the second rounds of the presidential elections of 2017 and 2022, unlike the left-wing parties, it is “because the left is not up to the task”. According to him, “the RN is a forger of the social question, but it constantly talks about the social question.”
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“If the left does not put these subjects forward in its meetings and its televised debates, then yes, we should not be surprised that the National Rally is prospering”, insisted Léon Deffontaines again. The far-right party is currently popular in this European campaign, garnering 31% of voting intentions, according to our daily poll.
