• While his opponents accuse him of being "parachuted" into the 18th district of Paris, Aymeric Caron recalls that the legislative campaign is "national".

  • According to him, in the 18th arrondissement, residents identify him first as an activist against the far right, before being an activist for the anti-speciesist cause.

  • For his last day of campaigning this Friday, the candidate went to meet associations and residents of the Clignancourt district.

“My sister is going to hallucinate”.

At the door of Clignancourt this Friday morning, the arrival of Aymeric Caron, the candidate of the Nupes (New popular ecological and social union) for the legislative elections does not go unnoticed.

A man asks him for a selfie, further on, two others recognize him and ask him questions about how the counting works in the polling stations.

Pedagogue, the former journalist explains to them, before launching: “And above all go vote!

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Julie Garnier, regional councilor for Île-de-France is at his side, as is Cédric Kerdrebez, his campaign manager who has lived for 30 years in the 18th arrondissement of the capital.

That morning, everyone distributes their leaflets and meets the neighborhood associations.

"People first talk to me about my fight against the far right"

Usually rather accustomed to TV sets, Aymeric Caron claims to be comfortable in the field and to receive a "good welcome": "I regret that the campaign is so short," he says.

The one whom his opponents accuse of being “parachuted in” assumes: “The outgoing candidate [Pierre-Yves Bournazel, NDLR] plays the proximity card while we are in a national campaign.

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Arrived in an association which works for digital inclusion through training, Sirius Productions, the former journalist is challenged by a young person, who no longer believes in politics: "Anyway, once you are in a high place, you are getting perverted”.

To which Aymeric Caron replies that a "new generation is coming" recalling that "we must fight against the lobbies" and "believe in democracy".

A little further on, the Nupes team stops off at the Petit Ney literary café.

An associative space which also manages a participative canteen.

"We gave up meat to be able to reach as many people as possible", explains a supervisor.

"I'm not going to blame you," replies the defender of the animal cause (and vegan) before continuing the discussion around the issues of the place, such as providing a workspace for young people who cannot study at them.

Aymeric Caron then took the opportunity to recall the Nupes program, which campaigns for the establishment of generalized free tutoring.

Social housing, purchasing power, access to education… The topics covered follow one another throughout the day.

But once the problems are mentioned, what's next?

To this question, the anti-speciesist candidate explains that his campaign manager lists all the data and contact details and that, if he is elected, each person will be contacted and their needs studied.

If he marks the spirits in this constituency it is also since his passage on C8 where he launched a "you are racist" to Eric Zemmour very noticed.

“People talk to me first about my fight against the far right, even before my commitment to animal welfare,” he notes.

“I am a local elected official who does not come from reality TV”

Facing him in this constituency, we find Pierre-Yves Bournazel, outgoing deputy (ex-LR who joined Ensemble!, which brings together LREM, Modem, Horizons and Agir) who is also committed to the environment.

But for Aymeric Caron, it's a facade: “Today, everyone claims to be an environmentalist.

Pierre-Yves Bournazel says what people want to hear because we are in a left-wing constituency.

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For his part, the outgoing MP recalls that he, among other things, voted for the ban on glyphosate and that he is fighting against concreting.

The one who presents himself as "moderately moderate" also wants to put citizens back at the heart of democratic debate by creating a citizens' assembly and demanding social projects, such as the creation of a rent payment guarantee fund for vulnerable people.

Less media than his main opponent, the outgoing deputy does not go unnoticed in the district of Jules Joffrin, where residents greet him and wish him good luck for Sunday.

This close friend of Édouard Philippe highlights his program and refuses to criticize his opponents.

What does not deprive Rudolph Granier, the candidate LR (Les Républicains): “I am a local elected official who does not come from reality TV and who does not seek to disfigure France.

“In his viewfinder, the shooting rooms he intends to replace with care centers that “direct towards weaning” if he is elected.

"Break down the walls"

According to him, the situation in the 18th is comparable to that of Lozère: “Both are medical deserts”.

The LR candidate wants installation aid, scholarships, in short “to take care of caregivers”.

For him, the challenge is also to "bring down the walls" in a district where "people live together but do not mix".

People who do not mix, this is also the observation made by the young man from the Sirius Productions association in the face of Aymeric Caron, “because the very rich do not want to mix with the very poor”.

To which the writer replies that “there shouldn't already be very rich and very poor”.

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All the candidates of the 18th district of Paris

  • Annie Boubault (Labour struggle)

  • Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Together!)

  • Aymeric Caron (New popular ecological and social union)

  • Julia Carrasco (National Rally)

  • Rudolph Granier (The Republicans)

  • Axelle Le Gal de Kerangal (Reconquest!)

  • Ile-de-France

  • Legislative elections 2022

  • Aymeric Caron

  • Nudes

  • Paris