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From a family of activists,[1] Fabien Roussel is the son of Daniel Roussel, former journalist at L'Humanité.[2] After he finished high school in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the Paris region, he graduated from the Journalists Development Centre (CPJ).[3] He began his career as an image reporter at the Ardennes regional branch of television channel France 3. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was a Spanish refugee who died after being interned in the Vernet camp.[4]
Early political career
During his high school years, Fabien Roussel engaged in the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France (MJCF) to denounce the apartheid in South Africa and demanded the release of Nelson Mandela. He also participated in major demonstrations against the Monory law and Devaquet bill, related respectively to employee shareholding and university organisation.
On 9 May 2021, Roussel won the Communist nomination for the 2022 presidential election.[7] He was defeated in the first round of voting, placing eighth and garnering just 2.28% of the vote, the second-lowest vote share the party has ever managed in a presidential election.
Roussel takes progressive positions on socioeconomic issues and favours raising the minimum wage to €1,500 a month post-tax, as well as reducing the workweek to 32 hours and lowering the retirement age to 60. Unlike many French leftists, he is strongly supportive of nuclear power and has expressed a positive view of hunting.[9] He has expressed support for the 2023 pension reform strikes.[10]
