In his upcoming fight with Elisabeth Borne, he presents himself as "the young ecologist facing the symbol of social and ecological mistreatment".
Noé Gauchard, aged 22, feels that the stakes weighing on his shoulders will show up a notch.
The young student in political science was invested by the New popular ecological and social union (Nupes) in the 6th district of Calvados, where the new Prime Minister is presenting himself on behalf of the majority *.
“We do not want this policy and we want to ensure that his mandate comes to an end.
With this appointment, the stakes become more important because the voters will be able to directly show that they do not want Macron's policy ”, thunders Noé Gauchard, joined this Monday evening by Le Parisien.
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The young man, invested candidate on April 20, was born in Caen and he "always lived in Calvados".
A local anchorage that he openly claims, facing Élisabeth Borne regularly accused of parachuting.
"Calvados is a territory to which I am very attached", replied the latter on May 6 on France Bleu.
Former Youth for Climate activist
Before getting into the big political bath, Noé Gauchard was an activist in the Youth for Climate movement.
"We want a global and radical ecology, that is to say one that takes the problem to its root, via the exit from a system based on infinite production and the accumulation of wealth", he detailed last September. in Challenges.
“I have always been convinced that the associative movement needed a political relay, that both were necessary because one like the other could not function alone.
There are many things to change in the current institutions, ”he develops this Monday evening.
The Nupes program, which he is preparing to defend, must be presented in its entirety in the coming days.
In particular, it provides for the freezing of the prices of basic necessities.
I will therefore face the Prime Minister #ElisabethBorne in the legislative elections: my press release ⬇️
On June 12 and 19, send a Norman to the assembly! #NUPES #Législatives2022 #Calvados #circo1406 #PremierMinistre pic.twitter.com/nT3k1qJY5y
– Noé Gauchard (@GauchardNoe) May 16, 2022
In the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, promised to the post of Prime Minister if the Nupes obtained the majority of the seats in the National Assembly, obtained 17.7% of the votes in this 6th constituency of Calvados.
This is less than at the national level (22%).
Conversely, Emmanuel Macron "outperformed" there (30.8% versus 27.9% in France as a whole).
"Nothing is decided, because a lot of people very disappointed after the presidential election have remobilized", wants to believe Noé Gauchard.
According to the republican tradition in force since 2007, if Elisabeth Borne were beaten in the legislative elections, she would probably have to leave the government.
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Other candidates in the running include Valérie Dupont (Reconquest), Jean-Philippe Roy (RN), and Pascale Georget (Worker's Struggle).