Thomas Cazenave would like to remind you: he is from Bordeaux. Often criticized for the fact that his Parisian career took him far from the Gironde capital where he was born, he hammers home his origins like a leitmotif to his local commitment. Elected deputy of Together! or La République en Marche (LRM) of the 1re constituency of Gironde, Sunday June 19, this victory (59.11%) is revenge for the unsuccessful candidate in the municipal elections of Bordeaux in 2020.
Since then, he has settled into a role of municipal councilor in opposition to the ecologist mayor, Pierre Hurmic. He also entered the metropolitan council for LRM. Anyone who does not miss a council at the town hall as in the metropolis is a good student, taking care to study each agenda and preparing his interventions. His entry into the National Assembly, the 44-year-old enarque experienced it ” a bit like back to school”.
In Bordeaux, Mr. Cazenave studied in preparatory classes, before joining Sciences Po and then the National School of Administration. At the end of his studies, he became a finance inspector. “I carried out audit missions, evaluation of public policies. I was 26″remembers the father of two children.
A Macron employee
After a stint at Orange, he became, for four and a half years, deputy general manager of Pôle emploi. In 2016, he joined Emmanuel Macron, then François Hollande’s Minister of the Economy, of whom he became deputy chief of staff, before being appointed deputy secretary general of the presidency of the Republic at the end of the mandate of the president of the Republic.
At the start of Mr. Macron’s mandate, he was appointed interministerial delegate for public transformation to the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe. If the father of Mr. Cazenave was socialist, that which has just been elected deputy of the Gironde never joined the party. His first involvement in politics began with En Marche!, in 2016, and he participated in its establishment in Bordeaux. “I said to myself that one day I wanted to get involved. That’s how I decided and I wouldn’t have done it anywhere else but in Bordeaux, because it’s my city, I have all my relatives there. I have never defined myself as anything other than Bordeaux”, recalls the neo-deputy again. Elected by the nation but from Bordeaux, always.