And the third was the good one. Gabriel Amard, 55, son-in-law of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and active militant of his party since 2008, was elected in the 6th district of the Rhône, after two unsuccessful attempts in the legislative elections in Essonne in 2012 and in the Jura in 2017. gnashing of teeth aroused by his investiture, he managed to win in Villeurbanne, on socialist lands conquered by LREM in 2017.
He gathered 55.54% of the vote against the presidential majority candidate Emmanuelle Haziza (Horizons, Together!) in these neighborhoods where Jean-Luc Mélenchon had made a big score in the first round of the presidential election.
Successively mayor of Viry-Châtillon, regional councilor in Ile-de-France and general councilor of Essonne, this former socialist was elected in 2021 to the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Born on May 5, 1967 in Juvisy-sur-Orge (Essonne), he has published various essays on the social and solidarity economy, on the water war or European lobbies. Married to Maryline, daughter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he is the father of three children.
“He’s an apparatchik”
Described as “warm, courteous and talkative but also cunning and provocative” by Progrès, the man feels heir to a “working-class, popular and humanist” culture. And the regional daily to quote a socialist activist who knows Gabriel Amard well: “He knows how to speak loudly to be heard, he knows how to make sentences, but he doesn’t really have a speech of his own. Politics must belong to all citizens, it means giving voice to the people. He carries a policy that says that, and he embodies the opposite. He is an apparatchik”.
VIDEO. Mélenchon announces a “total rout of the presidential party” in the legislative elections
Via a press release published Sunday evening and quoted by Lyon Mag, the socialist mayor of Villeurbanne Cédric Van Styvendael, where the son-in-law of Jean-Luc Mélenchon was therefore elected, for his part expressed his confidence in Gabriel Amard and the other deputies. de la Nupes “to be as combative as constructive and to raise the voice of the left and ecology”.