Communist Party of the Workers of France (PCOF): Our Position for the Second Round of the Presidential Elections

Posted on May 3, 2017 | 

(Machine Translation from French)
The long campaign for the first round of the presidential elections ended with the qualification of E Macron and M Le Pen. Despite the strong injunction to go vote, abstention is 20%. In this figure, there are those who wanted to express their refusal of the system. This is the position that we have defended and implemented.
The gaps between the top four candidates are reduced: they get between 19.5 percent and 24 percent of the vote. This shows the narrowness of the electoral base of the two candidates that remain in the running.
The mass rejection of the representatives of the two parties that have governed for more than forty years, Fillon for the right and Hall for the PS, is one of the highlights of these results. The slap is particularly severe for the PS that has already exploded.
The media favorite, receiving supports for the oligarchy, E Macron, arrived at the top of the first round, in front of M Le Pen, who has the highest electoral score of the far right.
A significant number of voters wanted to translate, through voting for the candidate of France L’insoumise, JL Mélenchon, their opposition to neo-liberal politics and the PS.
This potential of resistance, such as expressed through the vote in favour of P. Poutou or N Artaud, as one who spoke for some in the ‘white’ vote or abstention, must engage in social struggles that have not ceased. Because the class struggle, at the national and international level, does not bend and doesn’t come to the calendar and election dates.
The second round promises to be a repetition of the call in 2002 to vote Chirac to block Le Pen: today, ‘it’s all behind Macron
The far right is a map of the oligarchy: map of the division of the labour movement and popular, of racism, of neoliberalism camouflaged under a speech of demagoguery social and nationalist, the politics of war.
Macron, the candidate displayed the oligarchy, the supporter of neoliberalism, of the uberisation of the society of European defence, NATO… is not a rampart on the far-right.
That is why, we refuse to bend to the injunction to the trailer of the Macron candidate and we call for abstention in the second round of the presidential elections.
These presidential elections, based on a customization with excess of political combat, will lead to the designation of the one who will manage the interests of french imperialism.
The urgency is to organize and to fight, to confront, to defend the interests of workers and popular, to combat the neoliberal policy, against the police state and the policy of war that Macron will amplify. To develop solidarity with the peoples struggling for their national and social emancipation.
That’s what our party will put forward, this first of may, through its watchword:
Against the reaction and the war, for a revolutionary break!
Paris, April 24, 2017