{"id":313358,"date":"2017-06-18T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/francois-ruffin-runs-populist-campaign-in-amiens-for-frances-legislative-election\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T07:32:46","slug":"francois-ruffin-runs-populist-campaign-in-amiens-for-frances-legislative-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/francois-ruffin-runs-populist-campaign-in-amiens-for-frances-legislative-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin runs populist campaign in Amiens for France\u2019s legislative election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin runs populist campaign in Amiens for France\u2019s legislative election<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Antoine Lerougetel<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Tomorrow, filmmaker Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin will run in the second round of the French legislative elections against Nicolas Dupont, the candidate of President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s The Republic on the March (LREM) party, in a constituency around Amiens in northern France. Ruffin is running with the endorsement of Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, the former Socialist Party (PS) minister and leader of the Unsubmissive France (UF) movement, as well as of the Stalinist French Communist Party (PCF) and the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>The unseriousness of Ruffin\u2019s credentials as an \u201copposition\u201d figure is underscored by the fact that he has endorsed a Macron vote on television. Though M\u00e9lenchon refused to formally endorse either Macron or National Front (FN) candidate Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, while making clear that he in fact supported Macron, Ruffin said: \u201cI would slip an Emmanuel Macron ballot into the ballot box.\u201d However, Ruffin claimed that he would be \u201ca firm opponent of Macron the next morning, because I don\u2019t think he would bring anything positive to the people of my region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Ruffin is a successful independent filmmaker whose film <em>Merci Patron<\/em> (Thanks, boss), about his shaming of businessman Bernard Arnault over the firing of the Klur family after the outsourcing of their jobs, won a C\u00e9sar award. Despite the success of his film, Ruffin\u2019s election bid, closely tied to the old PS-linked political establishment, offers nothing new to the workers\u2014even as the PS disintegrates and is absorbed by LREM, which advances an even more right-wing, free-market program.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it exemplifies the bankruptcy of the various political forces in Amiens that for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/17\/ruff-j17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin runs populist campaign in Amiens for France\u2019s legislative election By Antoine Lerougetel 17 June 2017 Tomorrow, filmmaker Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin will run in the second round of the French legislative elections against Nicolas Dupont, the candidate of President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s The Republic on the March (LREM) party, in a constituency around Amiens in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}