Hugo Biolley is a student, lives with his mother and has just accomplished the feat of being elected, in the first round, and at 18 years mayor of Vinzieux, a village in Ardèche with 450 inhabitants where there are no schools or shops. .
“From the start of the campaign, my age was the main issue at the public meetings. They asked me: "How are you going to manage a municipality? Have you ever seen a budget?" Sometimes the questions were a little condescending ”, recognizes the student at Sciences Po Grenoble.
A youth that the youngest of the mayors of France wants to make forget. His assured patter and his taste for work have already enabled him to convince running mates and voters. "It can be scary to have a 19 year old boy but I think he is very mature, very calm. He knows where he wants to go, he knows how to organize, take the news and orient himself towards a team. He has to learn but he has great abilities, I don't worry, "explains Ludovic Gausse, 46, his first assistant.
This son of a school director and a musician switched to politics after a parliamentary assistant internship alongside the current Secretary of State Olivier Dussopt. Hugo Biolley claims not to have a career plan. "I suspect I will have doors open later and I know I will catch some. But my studies and my term end in six years, and I have no visibility afterwards. ”