The anti-species activist and ex-columnist of Laurent Ruquier will present himself in the 18th district of the capital.
“I will be a candidate for the legislative elections, in the 18th district of Paris, for the New Popular Union“says the journalist in an interview with Parisian this Tuesday. “It’s a fairly logical extension of my journey where I went from journalism to committed journalism, then to writing books where I tackle social projects that I want to bring to the legislative level today.»
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This constituency, straddling the 9th and 18th arrondissements of Paris, is currently held by the majority deputy Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons). In the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon came out on top.
“Prevent Macron from being able to carry out his policy”
Aymeric Caron will be a candidate as a member of the “radical ecology movementwhich he has chaired for four years, the Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV), but also under that of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (NUPES), an agreement still in the negotiation phase, to unite left-wing parties with legislative elections. Participating in particular are the rebels, ecologists, communists and socialists.
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“I will defend the program of the New People’s Union as a whole, but the ecological aspect in particular, with, for example, the end of factory farms where animals are mistreated and which promote diseases transmissible to humans“, announces the columnist turned politician, who believes in the victory of the left in the legislative elections of June, and wants to remind the French “that they have the power to prevent Macron from carrying out his policy“.
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