Stéphane Peu, PCF MP: "The president has his back to the wall. The left cannot get bogged down in pointless divisions."

PCF MP leader Stéphane Peu believes that the fall of François Bayrou is a further fundamental step in the rejection of Macron's policies. While the French demonstrated on September 10 and will return to the streets on the 18th, he calls on the left to provide an outlet for this social anger, through a program of rupture and thanks to a rally in which, in his view, the communists must be the protagonists.

François Bayrou fell on September 8. The French wanted this government to fall. Do you understand this anger?

I understand it and I share it. This anger has a long history. As early as 2018, the Yellow Vest movement, supported by 70% of French people, was already expressing a profound revolt against social and fiscal injustice, the weakening of public services, and the lack of democracy that characterize Macronism.

But the head of state has continued on the same path. He behaves more like a proxy for financial circles and capitalism than like a president of the Republic. He wants to break the DNA of...