“I would so much like the Assembly to be filled with employees, workers, the unemployed.
And politics would listen to these people,” confides Stéphane Ravacley, while energetically softening a lump of butter just out of his cold room with his pastry roll.
It is also partly to upset the National Assembly from the inside that he decided to run for a post of deputy in the second district of Doubs.
The candidate baker will be invested under the EELV label, which has formed an alliance with the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes), the great left-wing coalition led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
It was in full preparation for laminating his croissants that the Franc-Comtois unpacked his vision of a policy that he would like to see changed in depth: "The more we will have a polished discourse that we have had for 50 or 60 years, people who have learned that in a school, the fewer people there will be who will want to go to the vote”.
Since an 11-day hunger strike started in January 2021 to obtain the regularization of his Guinean apprentice, this craftsman has never stopped committing to his fellow citizens.
At the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, he even managed to send a humanitarian convoy to the East.
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From now on, Stéphane Ravacley has swapped the bakery T-shirt for a shirt, before criss-crossing the constituency he covets in a tired little white Twingo: “I am no longer the simple baker I was before the hunger strike, that, he has disappeared, that's for sure.
I used to say that I became a monster through their silence.
But I like the monster that I have become, ”rejoices the Bisontin.