In the car driving towards the town of Chalonnes-sur-Loire, Stella Dupont wants to know: why are we interested in her? She, usually so discreet, “secret”, same. Yes, but here it is, the Renaissance MP for Maine-et-Loire expressed her criticism of the pension reform project, yet presented as « vital » by Emanuel Macron. In the presidential camp, they are only a handful to have dared. Inevitably, the approach is noticed. And greeted. ” Do not give up ! », thus throws a woman at him, while we settle down in a bistro in Chalonnes, his lifelong stronghold. Stella Dupont nods politely. “The people I meet rather thank me for my position”, she says.
The day before, during his traditional evening of wishes, a business manager came to encourage him, worried. “In twenty-five years, this is the first time that my employees have gone on strike for a national project, he told her. Something is happening in our country! » For Stella Dupont, the alert is not trivial. “The feeling of injustice is very present. When I feel it at home, really moderate earth, it means something. You have to hear it. »
“It’s not a slingshot. We are in a logic of proposals. I believe that the majority does its president a favor when it is able to say no. » Stella Dupont
For her, “the account is not there”. With In common!, the microparty of which she is a member and which embodies the left wing of the majority, she intends to make proposals to try to change the text: limitation of the number of years of contribution to 43 for those who have started to work early (compared to 44 in the government project), implementation of a bonus-malus system on the employment of seniors, taking into account of training periods in the calculation of pensions… Measures intended to make the project ” more just “, without calling it into question on the merits. “It’s not a slingshot, assures the former socialist. A sling is what happened under Hollande, when a group was formed to make the other lose. We are in a logic of proposals. I believe that the majority does its president a favor when it is able to say no. »
A family of farmers
At 49, Stella Dupont also sees it as a form of loyalty to her career and her origins. She grew up in a family of farmers in the Angevin region where there was “not always hot water to wash” and where the clothes we wear as children are often “those of older cousins or friends”. His grandfather is a communist “self-taught”, in a region “not at all red”. At home, we talk politics without realizing it, morning, noon and night.
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