Coronavirus, hospital crisis, pension reform … Fabien Roussel, number one of the PCF, is on all fronts three weeks from the municipal level to defend “left values”, as he repeated to the nurses and railroad workers encountered in Val-de-Marne, the last bastion of a bloodless communist party.
The PCF national secretary has chosen to cross three cities of the only department still in the hands of his party: Villejuif, which fell to the right during the “blue wave” of 2014, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Vitry-sur-Seine, still Communists, with the firm hope of remaining so in March.
On the eve of a meeting on Thursday between the leaders of political parties and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on the situation linked to a possible epidemic of coronavirus, Mr. Roussel visited the nursing assistants of the resuscitation and hospitalization services of Paul Brousse hospital in Villejuif, on strike for three weeks.
