Legislative 2022: disappointed candidate for the LREM nomination, a former member of the Climate Convention regrets "a logic of old parties"

Former figure of the Citizen's Climate Convention, Grégoire Fraty is a member of La République en Marche.

He campaigned for the regional elections, then the presidential election, under the colors of the majority.

LE FIGARO.

- How did you get involved during the presidential campaign?

Gregoire Fraty.

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I got involved very quickly.

I tried to lend a hand wherever I could be useful, whether to talk about democratic or environmental issues.

I also lent my face to campaign clips, helped with proxies, organized workshops... I came away delighted with the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, and driven by the desire to see how we could continue to be disruptive in politics.

Have climate issues been sufficiently present in the public debate?

No, but I attribute that more to this very particular campaign than to the candidate himself.

A lot of topics have been overlooked.

Ecology still arrived during the campaign between the two rounds, and I really liked the speech from Marseille.

I found myself in this idea that we must accelerate.

This second five-year term is perhaps the one that will put back on the table certain measures that have been set aside, such as those of the Citizens' Climate Convention.

I think it's time to take off, to be a little more to the left and to go further on environmental themes.

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Do you approve of the change in method promised by Emmanuel Macron?

It was a pleasure !

But we will have to go very quickly in the proofs of love given to democracy.

The president had a lot of courage in organizing the Citizens' Convention, and I am delighted that he proposed a new one on the end of life.

He must continue to want to reinvent the way of doing politics, for example by giving pledges to civil society and by seeking unexpected profiles.

Unfortunately, for the moment, I rather have the impression that we reproduce the same things as before.

Why this impression?

With the first candidates for the legislative elections unveiled and these nominations negotiated between apparatuses, without democratic consultation, I find that we are falling back a little into the logic of old parties.

I support the majority with all my might, but I am a vigilant ally.

I want this majority to be able to respond to the need that we feel in the territories and which ultimately finds little echo.

And that means taking risks.

I meet so many people who no longer have any bearings between the alliance on the left and the far right... And I have the impression that the majority can't manage to get out of the game. fear that it will not be able to present itself as a real countershot to this politician's policy.

We need stronger markers,

know how to go further and take on people who clash and know how to say when they don't like it!

When I see that we went to get Manuel Valls, I tell myself that this is not how I imagine renewed politics.

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Would you personally be ready to invest more?

Maybe even within a government?

I have indicated my availability to be a candidate in my constituency of Calvados.

I was not selected and I will support the MoDem candidate in my territory.

But I know that some people found themselves in my profile, that is to say someone who looks like them a little bit more.

Me, I've always gone to the Élysée in basketball jeans, because that's how I look every day.

Now, if I feel that I can be useful somewhere, why not.

What I don't want is to be the citizen's surety.

I don't need a job, I'm very happy where I am.

I don't think I have the political profile for that either, maybe because I'm still a little too much of a citizen.

But if I have skills that I am able to implement,