Suddenly, in the hubbub of the Parisian demonstration, between the songs and the slogans, pierce the cries of three high school girls: “Louis! Louis! Louis! » The teenage girls jump and raise their arms towards the platform set up by La France insoumise (LFI). Louis Boyard, tricolor scarf over a fleece jacket, sneakers on his feet, leaves the podium where he was with a dozen party deputies. In the middle of the boulevard, the elected 22-year-old starts a dance with the high school girls and sings: ” We are here ! We are here ! Even if Macron does not want to, we are here! For the honor of the workers and for a better world, even if Macron does not want it, we are here! » Their songs cover the voice of the deputy of Val-de-Marne Rachel Keke recounting on the microphone her fight against the Accor group.
Louis Boyard is used to these outpourings at the heart of demonstrations. On this Tuesday, March 28, tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform, difficult for him to take two steps without being arrested. By young people, especially, urban and left-wing, eager to get a selfie. High school students and students, hitherto discreet in the processions, came in large numbers.
“We love you! », launches a teenager. Another congratulates him on having paid Bolloré at Cyril Hanouna, on C8. Further on, a young man asks him for a hand for his friends in police custody after their school was blocked.
“It is the voice of youth, of the future”, raves Salomé Ponce, 15, one of the teenagers who came to dance with him. In 1D at Balzac high school, in the 17e arrondissement of Paris, she discovered Louis Boyard on social networks and finds “Too bad some people only see him as a TikTok influencer. It’s just that we young people are on it and he knows how to use these tools. He knows how to talk to us. » Coming from Dourdan, in Essonne, Morgane Reppert, 18, sees in her “favorite deputy” “the one who fights for young people, who makes you want to mobilize”. Louis Boyard drinks whey. He smells the air of the bustling street: “It is here that we feel the best. This is where I started to do politics. »
Political influencer
Less than a year after his election in Val-de-Marne, deputy Boyard, with his round face and his cheeks rimmed with blond down, has become one of the most visible figures of LFI, a party that , however, does not lack big mouths. On television sets, social networks, he is everywhere. Every day or almost his short video, his shot of anger. Facing the camera, he challenges the executive, taunts a parliamentary vote deemed unworthy. No jargon, simple words.
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