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Membership providers, tractors... these activists who energize the presidential campaign

2022-03-10T19:22:05.301Z


PORTRAITS – They are between 21 and 24 years old, from all walks of life, and each belongs to the HQ of a candidate. Le Figaro went to meet these young people who tell their story and their political commitment.


• Guilhem Carayon, HQ Pécresse

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His father, Bernard Carayon, lawyer and deputy (RPR, then UMP) for Tarn for fifteen years, has been the mayor (LR) of the town of Lavaur (81) since 1995. Guilhem Carayon, 22, elected in April president of the Young Republicans, has been immersed in politics since childhood.

At 18, he took his card from LR.

At Paris-I - where he has for the moment put his master's degree in business law on hold - he chaired the UNI, a student union marked on the right.

“I was tired of seeing my university taken hostage,”

he explains, referring to the cancellation of a conference by Franco-Algerian journalist Mohamed Sifaoui on the prevention of “Islamist radicalization”.

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"In one year, we have gone from 1,500 members to 16,000

," says the president of the youth movement, which has

"a lot of students who have just entered university or major schools."

“We have reconstituted a network and launched a training school,”

he continues.

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