Fabien Roussel : présidentielle 2027

Parti communiste français · National secretary of the PCF, mayor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux

Statut : Declared on 6 September 2026 (TF1 evening news), after a members' vote from 3 to 6 September (72%). Campaign slogan: “VIVRE!”. Outside any primary.

Born in Béthune, a former video journalist, Fabien Roussel has led the PCF since November 2018 and was a deputy for Nord from 2017 to 2024. A candidate in 2022 (2.28%), he has been mayor of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux since January 2025.

Average first-round voting intention: 2,1 %.

Sondage présidentielle 2027 : toutes les intentions de vote pour Fabien Roussel

Fabien Roussel: ten key proposals

  1. Demand that TotalEnergies cut the price of petrol by 30 to 50 cents a litre, or face punitive nationalisation (Pouvoir d'achat)
  2. Raise pensions so that no pension is lower than the minimum wage (Smic) (Retraites)
  3. Raise wages by 5%, bring the minimum wage (Smic) to 1,700 euros net, and restore the sliding wage scale (échelle mobile des salaires) (Travail et emploi)
  4. Build 200,000 social housing units a year and raise the social housing quota to 30% in urban areas (Logement)
  5. Launch a 500 billion euro, five-year plan financed by zero-interest loans (from banks, the Caisse des dépôts, the ECB) (Métaux critiques et industrie)
  6. Put one million electric vehicles on sale for under 10,000 euros for working and middle-class households (Écologie)
  7. Install 2 million heat pumps a year as part of the climate plan (Énergie)
  8. Secure a rapid ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia and redirect military credits to public services (Europe et défense)
  9. Adopt a comprehensive framework law against sexual and gender-based violence, endowed with 3 billion euros (Sécurité et justice)
  10. Increase the number of firefighters and their intervention equipment (Sécurité et justice)

Campaign team

  • Ian Brossat : Campaign director, PCF senator
  • Léon Deffontaines : PCF spokesperson

Positions for the 2027 election, issue by issue

Energy

Fabien Roussel wants to increase nuclear capacity and leave the European electricity market.

  • Expand nuclear power and support ITER, Astrid and new-generation EPRs.
  • Leave the European electricity market to regain control over prices.
  • Cut electricity and gas prices by 30% for households and businesses.
  • Nationalise TotalEnergies, with expropriation if necessary.

Ecology and environment

The PCF combines nuclear power, public transport and French production of electric vehicles.

  • Put one million electric cars costing less than 10,000 euros on sale, made in France (August 2026).
  • Build 20 EPR2 reactors and 12 small reactors by 2050 (PCF climate plan 2023).
  • Invest heavily in public transport with the goal of making it free (PCF climate plan 2023).
  • Completely phase out fossil fuels (PCF climate plan 2023).

Immigration

Fabien Roussel has not detailed a migration plan for 2027; his 2022 programme called for a welcoming policy based on humanity.

  • Implement a reception policy based on humanity (2022 programme).
  • Create a system to care for unaccompanied minors (2022 programme).

Purchasing power

Fabien Roussel calls for a general wage increase indexed to prices and a fuel price freeze.

  • Raise the SMIC to 1,700 euros net and increase all wages by 5%.
  • Restore the sliding wage scale to index wages to prices.
  • Freeze fuel prices at 1.60 euros per litre.
  • Raise the civil service index point by 30%.

Employment and work

The PCF places a general wage increase at the centre of its proposals (August 2026).

  • Raise the SMIC to €1,700 net.
  • Raise all salaries by 5%.
  • Raise civil servants' index point by 30%.
  • Restore the sliding wage scale (échelle mobile des salaires).

Critical metals and industry

No measure published on critical metals. Fabien Roussel advocates relocation and public control.

  • Relocate industrial production to reduce emissions from imports.
  • Launch a 500 billion euro climate plan over five years via the Caisse des dépôts and Bpifrance.
  • Nationalise TotalEnergies.
  • Introduce a heavier corporate tax for groups that offshore production.

Innovation and digital

Fabien Roussel defends digital technology under public control and protective of freedoms (2022 programme).

  • Nationalise Orange and exclude the GAFAM from public procurement (2022 programme).
  • Adopt a law against mass digital surveillance (2022 programme).
  • End the opacity of platform algorithms (2022 programme).
  • Create a status and social rights for platform workers (2022 programme).

Pensions

Fabien Roussel defends retirement at 60 and pensions at least equal to the SMIC.

  • No pension below the SMIC (August 2026).
  • Restore retirement at 60 at full rate (2022 programme).
  • Raise wages, minimum social benefits and pensions (2022 programme).

Health

Fabien Roussel defends more resources for public hospitals and opposes the rise in medical co-payments.

  • More carers in hospitals, refusal of the rise in medical co-payments (August 2026).
  • Recruit 100,000 staff in public hospitals (2022 programme).
  • Create a public medicines hub (2022 programme).
  • Social Security reimbursing 100% of prescribed care (2022 programme).

Security and justice

Fabien Roussel calls for resources for justice and local public services, without automatic sentencing.

  • Comprehensive law against sexual and sexist violence, endowed with €3 billion (August 2026).
  • Reopen closed police stations and public services (August 2026).
  • Opposed to automatic mandatory minimum sentences.
  • Rescue plan for justice and more humane prisons (2022 programme).

Education and youth

Fabien Roussel makes schooling a priority, with massive recruitment.

  • Make national education and youth the priority for the coming years (August 2026).
  • Recruit 90,000 staff for the Éducation nationale (2022 programme).
  • Homework completed at school for all pupils (2022 programme).
  • Abolish Parcoursup and introduce a student income of at least 850 euros per month (2022 programme).

Gender equality

Fabien Roussel supports the right to abortion and menstrual leave, without a detailed 2027 programme on equality.

  • Enshrine abortion in the Constitution as a fundamental right (2022 programme).
  • Voted to enshrine abortion in the Constitution in March 2024.
  • Create menstrual leave in companies and administrations (NFP 2024 programme).

Debt and public finances

Fabien Roussel wants to reinstate the ISF and fund a large public investment plan.

  • Reinstate the solidarity wealth tax (ISF) (September 2026).
  • Tax the largest inheritances, exempting those below 200,000 euros.
  • Prison or loss of civic rights for tax fraudsters.
  • 500 billion euro five-year climate plan through public banks.

Europe

Fabien Roussel rejects a federal Europe and wants to break with European budget rules.

  • Reject a federal Europe to preserve France's independent voice (August 2026).
  • Not ratify Mercosur and challenge free trade treaties (August 2025).
  • Break with the constraints of the Stability Pact (July 2025).
  • Relaunch European industrial cooperation (2026).

Defence

Fabien Roussel opposes the “war economy” and wants to leave NATO's integrated command.

  • Cancel the planned €36 billion increase in defence spending by 2030.
  • Exit NATO's integrated command, a first step toward its dissolution (2025).
  • Ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2025).
  • Limit the army's overseas deployments to UN mandates (2026).

International

Fabien Roussel prône une issue diplomatique en Ukraine et un embargo sur les armes vers Israël.

  • Cessez-le-feu entre l'Ukraine et la Russie, puis conférence paneuropéenne de sécurité (2025).
  • Embargo sur les armes vers Israël et interdiction des produits des colonies (2026).
  • Œuvrer avec les pays concernés à la suppression du franc CFA.
  • Monnaie commune mondiale de coopération, alternative au dollar (2025).

Latest statements

  • 2026-10-14, RTL, AFP dispatch carried by La Gazette France : « We are three on the left today, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Raphaël Glucksmann and myself. »
  • 2026-09-12, Meeting at the Fête de l'Humanité, Brétigny-sur-Orge : « Put aside the petty shopkeepers who count the polls and the candidates! »
  • 2026-09-11, Remarks reported by LCP on the eve of the Fête de l'Humanité : « For me, it is the union of the people that I aspire to »
  • 2026-09-06, 8 p.m. news on TF1, announcement of candidacy : « I know France from the inside, and I know the suffering and the hopes for change of our fellow citizens »

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Updated: 2026-10-31T08:51+01:00