There will be a former columnist for the program “On n’est pas couche” at the National Assembly. Arrived well ahead of the first round of the legislative elections last Sunday, the former journalist Aymeric Caron was elected, this Sunday, deputy of the 18th district of Paris. He obtained 51.65 of the votes, according to the final figures from the Ministry of the Interior, ahead of the outgoing majority MP Pierre-Yves Bournazel (48.35%). 1,269 votes separate them. In the first round, Aymeric Caron, who had joined the camp of La France insoumise before the presidential election, obtained 45.05% of the vote.
Sunday evening, outgoing MP Pierre-Yves Bournazel admitted defeat, thanking the “18,645 voters who trusted me. To have been deputy of Paris was a huge honor ”, wrote on Twitter the one who had a strong local anchorage in the capital.
Aymeric Caron had announced, at the beginning of May, his candidacy in the 18th district of Paris, under the banner of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). A defender of animal rights, he had created his own party, the Ecological Revolution for the Living, as an alternative to EELV, without ever standing for any election. In the National Assembly, “I will defend the program of the New People’s Union as a whole, but the ecological component in particular, with, for example, the end of factory farms where animals are mistreated and which promote diseases transmissible to man”, explained Aymeric Caron at the beginning of May, saying then that he wanted to “carry out the fight for animal rights”.
The former columnist of Laurent Ruquier, author of several works in favor of animal rights and veganism, had obtained 45.05% in the first round, ahead of the candidate of Ensemble, outgoing deputy, Pierre-Yves Bournazel (35, 57%).