They are 6293 candidates officially in the running, for only 577 seats of deputies to be filled on June 12 and 19.
Among these aspirants, several come from civil society and have sometimes quite unexpected backgrounds.
Overview of the candidates with the most original profiles, who hope to sit at the Bourbon Palace.
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Stéphane Ravacley, a baker ready for the Assembly
“
I don't come to the Assembly to make the croissants but to improve the lives of millions of people!
The baker Stéphane Ravacley is the candidate invested by the Nupes (New Popular Ecological and Social Union) in the 2nd district of Doubs, which includes part of the city of Besançon, in the hands of EELV since 2020. He was made known for having started a hunger strike in 2021 in order to demand the regularization of his Guinean apprentice.
The latter had reached his majority and therefore found himself in an irregular situation, but was finally regularized.
Governor Rachel Kéké, from strike to deputy
Also invested by Nupes, Rachel Kéké is a candidate in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne.
Originally from Côte d'Ivoire, she was one of the leaders in the mobilization of chambermaids at the Ibis Batignolles hotel in Paris, between 2019 and 2021. For nearly two years, around twenty employees of the hotel, including a majority of chambermaids, led a large strike, demanding in particular a reduction in the rate of rooms to be prepared and the payment of a daily food allowance.
It is the longest strike in the history of the hotel industry in France.
In this constituency, which notably includes the municipalities of Rungis and Fresnes, she will notably face the former Minister Delegate for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu.
Leïla Ivorra, the "
liar
" of Tolbiac invested by LFI
It is a choice that was quickly criticized by opponents of Nupes.
In the first constituency of Val-d'Oise, the union of the left invested Leïla Ivorra, made famous for having spread a false rumor in 2018 about a man supposedly injured and fallen "
into a deep coma
", during the occupation of a Parisian university, nicknamed the “
ZAD de Tolbiac
”.
Four years later, she confides in Actu about this event.
“
After a month and a half of occupying the university to protest against the Vidal law on student orientation and success, the fatigue and violence of the expulsion led me to repeat, using the indefinite pronoun "we", a rumor that turned out to be false
".
It remains to convince the voters of his sincerity to bring their voice to the National Assembly.
Yolande Bouin from the Citizen's Climate Convention
Some arrive by chance in politics but take a liking to it.
Yolande Bouin is one of them.
This Breton woman became known by actively participating in the Citizen's Climate Convention, a citizen's assembly drawn by lot, created in October 2019. Now invested by LFI in the seventh constituency of Finistère, Yolande Bouin was already a candidate in the regional elections in 2021 and she is an opposition municipal councilor in Douarnenez.
In this constituency, Jean-Luc Mélenchon came second in the first round, with 22.6% of the vote.
Isabelle Seguin, a winner of Koh-Lanta at LREM
Invested by the presidential majority, Isabelle Seguin is seeking the 4th constituency of Ain.
Living in this department, she is best known for being … a former winner of Koh-Lanta.
She won season 3 of this reality and adventure show, shot in 2003 in Panama.
She will face the outgoing LREM deputy, Stéphane Trompille, found guilty of sexual harassment but who has decided to maintain his candidacy as a dissident.
Facing her also, the candidate LR Aurane Reihanian, the pretender of the Nupes Philippe Lerda and Jérôme Buisson, invested by the National Rally.
Gérald Dahan and Laurent Baffie, campaigning with humor
"Baffie", humorist and specialist in hidden cameras, will be a candidate for the animalist party in the 3rd district of Paris.
The former columnist of the show “Salut les Terrans” will face the outgoing LREM deputy, who is none other than Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of La République en Marche.
"
Better a duck's head than an idiot's head
", explains Laurent Baffie this Wednesday, May 25 to journalists, brandishing the official party poster, stamped with a duckling.
“
I want to siphon off public money like the others and enjoy the same lifestyle
“, he jokes.
Another humorist, the imitator Gérald Dahan, is meanwhile invested by Nupes in the 3rd district of Charente-Maritime, facing outgoing deputy Jean-Philippe Ardouin (LREM).
He had already tried his luck in the legislative elections in 2017 in Hauts-de-Seine, without success.
Francis Lalanne, singer, antivax and sovereigntist candidate
Unlucky candidate also in the legislative elections in 2017, the singer Francis Lalanne is trying his luck again.
Known for his closeness to the movement of yellow vests and his theses often flirting with conspiracy, the 63-year-old singer will run against the outgoing and dissident PS deputy, Jérôme Lambert, dropped by his party because of his opposition to marriage for all .
In 2017, some contenders from civil society, such as mathematician Cédric Villani or handball player Aude Amadou, managed to get elected.
Among the 6293 suitors invested this time, a socio-professional category is however still over-represented: executives and higher intellectual professions (48% of the candidates, against approximately 16% in the working population).
Only 4% of aspirants to deputies are blue-collar workers, whereas they make up around 20% of working people.
Currently, the Assembly comprises only 0.4% of workers and 4% of employees, against 69% of executives and higher intellectual professions.
A situation that these atypical candidates would like to reverse.