"It is high time to have representatives who look like us," he defended.
The baker Stéphane Ravacley, who had distinguished himself by leading a hunger strike for the regularization of his Guinean apprentice, was invested by EELV in the Doubs for the legislative elections, he announced this Friday.
This owner of a bakery in Besançon had announced in April his candidacy as a citizen in the second constituency of Doubs for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, which covers part of Besançon, calling on the left-wing parties to support him for "the addition of the lefts”.
Initially supported by the PS, it was finally invested Thursday by the environmentalist party to which this constituency was devolved as part of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes).
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Stéphane Ravacley, who values his independence, will not join the environmentalist party, but if elected he will sit with the EELV group in the National Assembly, he said.
The regional secretary Europe Écologie-les Verts in Franche-Comté, Cécile Prud'homme, underlines "the tradition of EELV to give a chance to open candidates with an interesting profile".
“An interest in diversifying profiles at the Assembly”
“Stéphane Ravacley's candidacy really has an interest in diversifying profiles in the National Assembly, as a baker is a profession that is never represented”, she adds.
The second district of Doubs is the district where EELV achieved its best score in Franche-Comté in the presidential election.
"This constituency is winnable, even if it will be difficult", estimates Cécile Prud'homme, while the outgoing LREM deputy, Éric Alauzet, candidate for his re-election, had been "the best elected deputy in France in 2017".
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"It's the first day of the rest of his life": the young Guinean apprentice baker threatened with expulsion has been regularized
Stéphane Ravacley had led a ten-day hunger strike in January 2021 to protest against the possible expulsion of his Guinean apprentice, Laye Fodé Traoré, an isolated minor who had not obtained a residence permit when he came of age.
The situation of the young man had finally been regularized by the prefecture of Haute-Saône.
In February, at the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the baker again distinguished himself by launching an appeal for donations to help the Ukrainians.
He had thus collected more than 200 cubic meters of equipment and foodstuffs, conveyed by 15 trucks to Ukraine.