Fabien Roussel is a French politician who has been national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) since 2018. Born in Béthune in 1969, he represented the Nord department's 20th constituency in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024. He was the PCF's candidate in the 2022 presidential election, finishing eighth with 2.28 percent of the vote, and is the party's candidate for the 2027 election.
We have documented 1 statement by Fabien Roussel, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: National secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) and its 2027 presidential candidate
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Statement summary
As Zemmour announced his candidacy on TF1, Roussel posted that Zemmour wants to lead the Republic after several convictions for racist remarks and repeated his call to make politicians convicted of racism ineligible.
“Éric Zemmour wants to preside over the Republic after being convicted several times for racist remarks. I have been saying it for a long time: politicians convicted of racism should be made ineligible. (Translated from French. Original: Éric Zemmour veut présider la République après avoir été condamné à plusieurs reprises pour propos racistes. Je le dis depuis longtemps : les responsables politiques condamnés pour racisme devraient être rendus inéligibles.)”
The reference point is the remarks for which French courts have definitively convicted Éric Zemmour of racial insult and incitement to hatred. Roussel describes the remarks behind Zemmour's convictions as racist and says politicians convicted of racism should be barred from office, which condemns the remarks. His call for ineligibility is a proposed remedy; the label rests on his description of the remarks as racist and his view that they disqualify a candidate.
Announcing his 2027 presidential run on TF1, Éric Zemmour said his convictions for racial insult and incitement to hatred were for an opinion offense under a law he would abolish. Anchor Gilles Bouleau answered that racism is not an opinion.
