In Isère, Lyes Louffok is the “rebel” candidate nominated in the legislative by-elections

2024-10-29 11:24:00

Lyes Louffok during a gathering of former foster children, in Paris, May 7, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP

This was announced by La France insoumise (LFI).on Tuesday 29 October, after nominating child rights activist Lyes Louffok as a candidate in the partial legislative elections in the first constituency of Isère, where local socialists also proposed a candidate.

“Lyes Louffok will lead a decisive campaign to strengthen the ranks of the New Popular Front, the only opposition to Emmanuel Macron”declared the electoral committee of the LFI, while the question of a single left-wing candidacy in this constituency divides the forces of the PFN. Second The freed Dauphinélocal “rebel” activists unanimously approved Lyes Louffok’s candidacy.

The seat has been vacant since the resignation, last October 9, of the “rebel” Hugo Prevost, accused of sexism and sexual violence.

As tensions sweep across the left-wing alliance, LFI invites local NFP forces to meet in Grenoble on Wednesday ” hire (…) the campaign for the election of Lyes Louffok »“rebel” MP Paul Vannier explained to Agence France-Presse.

Lucie Castets had opted out of participating

The PFN candidate in Matignon, Lucie Castets, had long thought about running in this constituency, before giving up, “the conditions” to your question “not having gathered”.

The “rebels” demanded that she sit in their group, according to the NFP agreement concluded in June. Regretting “the intransigence demonstrated once again by La France insoumise”the local socialists announced last week that they intend to nominate a candidate, Amandine Germain.

Candidate for Val-de-Marne in June, Lyes Louffok was defeated in the second round by Republican candidate Sylvain Berrios. It is therefore in the former constituency of Olivier Véran, a former Macronist minister who is silent on his possible intentions to run for a new mandate, that the young man, social worker and spokesperson for children in care, will try to “impose”.

Lyes Louffok, “committed personality not belonging to any political group”will propose to “Great reform of child welfare”a fight “urgent and essential”claimed the LFI in its press release.

The world with AFP

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