Elected deputy of the 2e constituency of Calvados, that of Louis Mexandeau, minister under François Mitterrand, and Laurence Dumont, Arthur Delaporte, 30, is the perfect symbol of republican meritocracy. The chosen one grew up in a family of teachers. “My four grandparents, my father and my mother were teachers, my brother and my sister are associate professors. With us, it was socialist and green! »he summarizes.
The excellent student of the Lechanteur college and the Victor-Hugo high school, Caen establishments in the popular Calvaire Saint-Pierre district, was admitted to the preparatory class at the prestigious Henri-IV high school in Paris: “I was fortunately internal. Studying in Paris is expensive. Chance of life, I was in the same room that Louis Mexandeau occupied sixty-five years ago. » Young Arthur wants “doing Sciences Po Paris”. In fact, he also entered the competition for the Ecole Normale Supérieure. It is accepted at both. One foot in Paris, one foot in Lyon, he then followed both courses at the same time, public affairs at Sciences Po and history at ENS-Lyon. “The weeks were very busy”he recalls.
In Olivier Faure’s team
Before his history aggregation obtained at the end of his third year in Lyon, politics already tickled him: “In 2013, for my internship at Sciences Po, I asked Laurence Dumont, the Socialist MP for Caen. She had no room. » Mme Dumont is now the deputy of the young Socialist Party (PS)-Nupes deputy. His political mentor will be Yann Galut, now mayor of Bourges. Then, between the courses given at the University of Paris-I and a doctorate started on the Socialist Party, Arthur Delaporte worked as a political adviser with Valérie Rabault, PS deputy for Tarn-et-Garonne. “I was also in the team of Olivier Faure, elected head of the PS in 2018”, he says.
He misses his native land: “Politics is life. I wanted to get more involved in the field. » Return to Caen in 2020. After a first failure in the departmental elections at the end of 2021, Arthur Delaporte won the post of first federal secretary of the PS in Calvados. Eight months later, he was elected deputy. “It is thanks to the agreement between left-wing parties that I was able to succeed Laurence Dumonthe analyzes. A page in the history of the PS has turned. A new story is to be written. And this new story goes through the union of the left. In the markets, people tell me that every day. » The resignation of the PS of Bernard Cazeneuve? “I regretted it. He is someone of great intellectual and moral strength. But he did not see, like François Hollande, that society has changed. »