At 22, the creator of the Elyze app, who has been a spectacular success for a week, intends to reconcile young people with political participation.
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Tinder beaten! Tuesday, January 11, with 500,000 downloads in eight days, Elyze, the application that offers “mather” with one of the presidential election candidates, has exceeded the scores of his venerable older. His cocrateur, Grégoire Cazcarra, 22, is not very proud of it. “Elyze circulates in all the headquarters of political parties”, ensures this student master at the ESCP, a smirk, happy to have laid his stone in the presidential campaign.
In place of the “profiles” of the meeting apps, Elyze has a directory of about five hundred cards on which are summarized as many proposals of fifteen candidates, sweeping the entire political landscape. Each sheet is accompanied by a short text summarizing the project; As on Tinder, just give a boost to the right if we validate, on the left if we reject, at the center so finally the proposal does not inspire you. At any time, we can stop the parade and visualize, on a podium, the candidates who suit us best. “We have built this tool to reconcile our generation with the presidential election,” says Gregory Cazcarra.
Reconnecting the Primovyants with the ballot boxes and, before that, with political life, it’s his priesthood since, high school student, he heard, one evening from June 2017, David Pujadas Give France 2 the abstention rate Less than 35 years in parliamentary elections: 64%. “I had the announcement of this figure a moment of herself.” A dizziness in the abyss of the disinterest and the lack of confidence of a generation for its elected officials. “With this chorus: what goodiness good? What’s a good interest in politics if politics are not interested in me?”, Does it report.
Discussion spaces
Neither one nor two, the literary terminal student in a Bordelais high school summons his clan to find the parade to this national disinterest. Appointment is given in a cafe against the town hall. They are three, Gregory so, and his dorothy and Augustine friends. They decide to “build a movement that will give young people the taste of politics” and baptize it Committed.
Five years later, the association has about three hundred members, she has developed six antennas, in Bordeaux, a mother of the project, but also in Paris, Lille, Nancy, Toulouse and Rennes. She organizes meetings between young people and elected officials, artists, business leaders, associative managers. “We create spaces for discussion where royalists’ dialogue, communists and macronists, continues Gregory Cazcarra. They are also spaces where young people who do not know how to go on the political chessboard can ask questions, confront The contradiction and learn to understand other points of view. “
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