For its last edition before the presidential election, the Fête de Humanity allowed to act, if it was still needed, that the left would have a multitude of candidates in April 2022. In the background, it was also the opportunity to launch, already, poles to find a semblance of cohesion for the next ballot, the legislative elections.
The presidential candidates therefore followed one another at La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Saturday, September 11. For Fabien Roussel, candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF), this edition was first of all the occasion to hold a big campaign rally. “Today, the emergency is vaccination for all, get vaccinated against Covid because vaccines exist. Get vaccinated against capitalism too. And the vaccine is us! “, he launched, before unfolding his program of ” happy Days “, between reduction of working hours, moratorium on relocations, student income, fight against tax evasion. As for the ecological aspect, “The problem of the planet is not us, the problem is capitalism”, he declared, defending an energy mix “Driven by nuclear power and our hydroelectric dams”.
For Anne Hidalgo, on the eve of her probable declaration of candidacy, it was a quick but nonetheless friendly passage, just to heal the communist partners of her Parisian majority. Two of the five candidates for the ecological primary, Sandrine Rousseau and Eric Piolle, were also in the game, a way to mark their anchoring on the left, while Delphine Batho and Yannick Jadot had preferred to go to Grignon (Yvelines) to denounce the sale of the domain housing the AgroParisTech school.
Fragmentation of forces
As a second intention, the Feast still retained unitary virtues, even if it was in a homeopathic dose. In front of his associative and political guests, notably from Europe Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) and La France insoumise (LFI), the national secretary of the PCF thus proposed to all the left forces “To work on a common commitment pact for legislative elections”. The objective: “Build a new majority in the National Assembly, with as many left-wing and environmentalist deputies as possible, and of course a large number of Communist deputies. ”
“We taught the regions that we had fewer differences than we thought,” said Clémentine Autain, Member of the LFI
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