Candidate in the 6ᵉ Rhône district, the regional councilor LFI wants to “register in the duration”. To criticisms of parachuting on influence of his stepfather, he responds with an intensive campaign, using his “Laws workshops”.
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In the Rhône, Gabriel Amard (La France Insoumise, LFI) wins as a leader of the reconstituted left. Friday, May 13, the presentation of all the candidates of the department of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) is made in a Brasserie de Villeurbanne, a district where he presents himself. Micro in hand, the regional councilor of Isère distributes the floor to “rebellious” candidates, environmentalists, socialists and communists, gathered under the same banner. The ceremony provides a photo outside to display the support of the mayors of Villeurbanne, Cédric Van Styvendael (Socialist Party, PS), and Lyon, Grégory Doucet (Europe Ecologie-les Verts). Discreet smile and crossed arms, Gabriel Amard stands between the two mayors, slightly behind, as in ambush. Taken at the foot of the imposing town hall of Villeurbanne, in the Gratte-Ciel district, the image speaks volumes about the growing role of the one who is also the son-in-law of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The double family and political status gives Gabriel Amard’s campaign all its singularity. Its non -negotiable designation causes deep tears in the former fief of Charles Hernu. “It is the first time that there is no socialist candidate in the first round of legislative elections, our territory has been despised. To be alert to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Gabriel Amard, there is something that Not passing. All this was imposed by step-papa “, Cingle Jean-Paul Bret. The former PS mayor of Villeurbanne (2001-2020) has no hard enough words against the socialist negotiators and the agreement with the Nuts: “They sold the party to save their skin.” And is not More tender with his successor to the town hall, which he nevertheless favored, pointing “the duplicity” of Mr. Van Styvendael, guilty, in his eyes, to have smothered in the egg a possible socialist dissent.
Laboratory of the Recomposed Left
In this city of theater, politicians come to play atrides upside down: here, it is the father who tries to kill the son, and the son -in -law who takes up the parentage. Thus, by deciding to support Katia Buisson, candidate of the Radical Left Party (PRG), Jean-Paul Bret complicates the campaign of Gabriel Amard, in a city with high left potential. In the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, Jean-Luc Mélenchon improved his 2017 score with eleven points to 37.88 % of the votes, twelve points ahead of Emmanuel Macron. Elected in the macronist wave in 2017, the deputy Bruno Bonnell (La République en Marche, LRM) does not represent himself, and Emmanuelle Haziza, ex-Republicans joined in Horizons, operates a second legislative attempt under presidential label. Villeurbanne should be a good laboratory on respective influences, local tensions and melenchonist dynamics in the recomposed left.
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