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Yellow vests: who are the candidates for 2022?

2021-11-17T15:39:18.782Z


Among the contenders for the Élysée, known figures such as Jacqueline Mouraud and Eric Drouet, but also new profiles to support the cause of the movement.


Three years after their first historic mobilization, the yellow vests have not said their last word.

While irresistible people still continue to roam the roundabouts, some want to strike higher, harder, directly at the Elysee.

Already, several former yellow vests, or personalities supported by them, have announced their candidacy for 2022. Who are they, what are their ideas and will they manage to collect the 500 sponsorships required by next March?

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Jacqueline Mouraud (right)

Since December 2020, the leader of the early hours of the yellow vests movement has announced her desire to represent "

the people of ordinary people

" in the next presidential election. The 54-year-old hypnotherapist had, in 2018, helped launch the movement through a “rant” video that went viral on Facebook, to denounce the rise in fuel prices. A year later, the independent entrepreneur tried her hand in politics for the first time by founding a micro-party, Les Emergents. The latter fails to take off: after his failure to present a list to the 2019 Europeans, he suffered a wave of resignations. By slamming the door, his collaborators pointed out in particular the “

cult of the personality

” of the leader.

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A time spokesperson for the yellow vests movement, the Morbihannaise has now declared to have "

distanced herself

" from demonstrations which she believes have become too violent.

Jacqueline Mouraud defines herself today as the "

social right

".

Her ambition, to face the "

candidate

" Emmanuel Macron who, she believes, "

is no longer up to his position as president

".

Eric Drouet (various)

He is also one of the pioneers of the movement. Many remember this young truck driver from Seine-et-Marne who, at 34, galvanized the demonstrators on the Champs-Élysées, costing him multiple arrests. He was in particular brought to justice and acquitted for "

organizing demonstrations without prior declaration

". In November 2020, he appeared once again before the Paris Criminal Court for "

rebellion

", after trying to approach President Macron at the Agricultural Show.

Even if the father of the family has distanced himself from the original movement of yellow vests, his participation in the presidential race, announced on October 18 in Aude Lancelin's program “

Pas de Quartier

”, nevertheless falls under largely in the world of popular revolt. “

People in France remember my name, I tell myself that there may be something to do with it,

” explained the one who claims to be in the lineage of Coluche. The driver also says he is "

out of all party

". His program? The one "

that everyone will have chosen

”, That is to say the most popular line possible, with the idea of ​​including the people more in the system of governance.

On the menu, in particular, the RIC (citizens' initiative referendum) and the drop in the salaries of elected officials.

Finally, to overcome the media bias, a campaign mainly on social networks.

Fabrice Grimal

Faithful to the Saturday demonstrations from the birth of the movement, this entrepreneur and writer was nominated as a candidate by several yellow vests committees.

He will wear the colors of his “

Citizen Concord

” movement

, he assures us.

In the magazine Marianne, the candidate explained that he wanted to defend "

the program of programs

", conscientiously seeking the line of balance away from the traditional parties of the right or the left.

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And the candidate to clarify: if he says he wants more “

social, fiscal and environmental justice

”, the condition, he believes, is in “

the independence of the nation

”.

He thus advocates more “

political, economic and monetary, industrial and health sovereignty

”, and denounces in turn the risk of abandoning France's seat on the UN Security Council, threatened with being “

sold off

” to our partners, and taboos on crucial subjects such as immigration, the European Union, bioethics.

New figures revolving around the yellow vests

  • Clara Egger

Put an end to the "

tongue in cheek

"!

This is the goal of this teacher in international relations of just 33 years old, already supported by a small number of yellow vests.

In addition to teaching at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, she is the spokesperson for the Espoir RIC 2022 collective which wishes to bring the idea of ​​the referendum to the heart of the next presidential elections.

Poster of candidate Clara Egger Popular Constituent Movement

  • Anasse Kazib, railway worker of the radical left

At 34, this Franco-Moroccan railway worker and SUD-Rail unionist has already had several battles to his credit. The labor law in 2016, the SNCF reform in 2018 and then the 2019 pension reform mobilized it in turn. The revolt of the yellow vests earned him several strong interventions and noticed in the media, on the sets of Cyril Hanouna and the "Grandes Gueules".



Today the father of two children registers his candidacy alongside the far left, under the colors of the Revolutionary Communist Current-Permanent Revolution (CCR). A claimed Marxist, he speaks in turn of "class struggle", "imperialism" and "oppressions". Without wasting time, he started the race for 500 signatures a month ago, and firmly intends to continue meetings, to put the odds on his side.

Source: lefigaro

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