For the first time since 2007, the French Communist Party has named its candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
Fabien Roussel was appointed at the communist convention.
Russel, who won more than 73 percent of the vote, called on the left and the environmentalist movement to let the Communists vote.
In the 2012 and 2017 presidential elections, the Communist Party did not have its own candidate, but it was decided to support the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who received 2017 percent of the vote in the first round of the 19,58 elections.
According to polls, in the first round of the presidential elections in 2022, the leader of the extreme right, Marine Le Pen (from 25 to 27 percent of the vote) and the current president, centrist Emmanuel Macron (from 23 to 28 percent), would receive the most votes.
Mélenchon would win from 10 to 13,5 percent of the vote.
In France, the names of possible candidates are already being mentioned, and among them is the popular former prime minister, the right-wing Edouard Philippe, who has not yet declared whether he will present his candidacy.
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