Fabien Roussel, the French Communist Party’s first presidential candidate since 2007, campaigned based on policies of austerity and support for NATO against Russia.
The campaign was widely unpopular, as all candidates advocated similar policies of austerity, mass infection with COVID-19 and military threats against Russia.
The 2022 French presidential election, held on two rounds on Sunday April 10 and 24, is unfolding amid an international breakdown of the capitalist order.
One after the other, six French presidential candidates laid out their economic platforms on Monday to business leaders, just as the French economy emerges from the Covid-19 crisis saddled with risin…