They are entrepreneurs, professional risk specialists, farmers, international civil servants or insurance trainers. In 2017, these anonymous people had embarked on a new adventure: that of campaigning for a candidate in the presidential election promising to break the codes of political life, then to get elected in the 4e constituency of Bas-Rhin a deputy without any elective experience. Five years later, their then candidate, Martine Wonner, turned her back on her first term to run under the banner of her own party, as a vehement opponent of the presidential majority.
To face him, La République en Marche (LRM) sent a Strasbourg candidate little known in the constituency, Françoise Buffet. As for the former activists, while some have continued their journey within the movement, others claim to have definitively turned the page.
” If I could redo it, I would. It was a great human adventure. But today, I am completely disgusted with politics and if I continue to vote, it is not always by putting a ballot in the envelope”, thus sums up Jérémy Pierrat. Five years ago, this web developer was in charge of the multimedia aspects of the campaign of the candidate En Marche!. “My phone kept ringing. But the day after the second round, it was dead calm. I quickly realized that I had been fooled and that I had been used like a Kleenex”he notes.
To extend his action, Jérémy Pierrat created an En Marche! in his village. But he will soon hand over the keys. “While we wanted to set up a new political landscape, we found ourselves with the type of people against whom we wanted to fight: people with long teeth, interested in building their own local barony. If I had wanted that, I would have taken a card from Les Républicains! »he exclaims.
“Disgusted” members
The career of MP Martine Wonner, who went from critical support for Emmanuel Macron to frontal opposition to the government during the health crisis, has confused many. “It does not call into question my membership of LRM or my support for Macron, but I feel a certain illegitimacy in this campaign for having supported Martine Wonner in her early days, even if no one could have imagined such a casting error”thus recognizes Julie, daughter of workers and “walker” from the start. “This mandate, which should have been exercised in the service of the voters, was put in the service of his person and his ideas. In doing so, she broke the contract binding her to her constituents.she analyzes
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