Fabien Roussel: "Citizens' intervention in the coming days will be decisive"

At the start of the new school year, while the Bayrou government is in the hot seat , the PCF is demanding emergency measures: an increase in the minimum wage to 2,000 euros gross, the repeal of pension reform, a review of public aid to businesses, a moratorium on layoffs, and action for peace.

Fearing the appointment of a new prime minister in the same vein as the previous ones, the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, is calling for mobilization on September 10 and 18. In the event of dissolution, he calls on the entire left to come together to bring forward, in the territories, the candidates best placed to defeat the extreme right. Interview.

François Bayrou hopes that the vote of confidence will seal a "statement" on the state of public finances. What is yours?

The Prime Minister is bearing the brunt of eight years of policies that favor capital and the wealthy. A disastrous record that has led to several records: 12 million people live below the poverty line ; 17% of employees are paid the minimum wage; and the rich have never been so rich.

The government seems ready to fall. What should the left demand?

We need a change of policy in a particular context: a president who defends the rich and a National Assembly divided into three blocs. After François Bayrou, we need a prime minister who is willing to talk with the left and resist the President of the Republic. We...