Legislative power: emergency doctor, professor… who does LFI nominate to replace the suspended leaders?

An emotional uplift in just a few hours. Following Friday’s official launch of the Leftist Popular Front, several outgoing LFI lawmakers discovered late in the evening that they were ultimately not nominated by their party for legislative elections, including LFI historical figures like Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido and Daniel Simonnet, critics of the line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The Insoumis leadership favored several other profiles, some of whom represented civil society and began their first electoral battle.

A total of five outgoing rebel MPs will not be supported by their party, much to the disappointment of other left-wing allies of the New Popular Front: Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbiere in Seine-Saint-Denis, Daniel Simonnet in Paris, Hendrik Davy in Bouches-du-Rhône and Frédéric Mathieu in Ille et Vilaine. Almost all of them said they would still vote. Guillaume Anselet, Somme candidate and president of the Picardie Debout! movement supporting François Ruffin, also did not receive investment.

In Seine-Saint-Denis, an association activist defends his “local roots.”

In the 5th arrondissement of Seine-Saint-Denis, Raquel Garrido’s opponent is Ali Diouara, president of the Seine-Saint-Denis au Coeur party, which bills itself as a “political-civil movement” seeking to “replace (the) inhabitants (sic) of 93 at the center of political problems, projects and problems of the territory.” “I’ve just been given a lot of responsibility,” he responded the night shortly after announcing his inauguration.

“For years, I have strived to bring the voice of our SSD division to the forefront. (Seine-Saint-Denis)our districts and our children,” he wrote on the page Our team is present in all districts of the department,” he added to Le Parisien, considering himself absolutely “legitimate.”

This territorial head of the civil service and social activist, especially within Assad’s homework help association, ruled out any political commitment until a few years ago. “Most of us are, first of all, unregistered citizens. We just want residents to be given more of a say,” Cournevien explained to Le Parisien at the time of the creation of his collective “La Seine-Saint-Denis au Cœur” in 2020.

Finally, the following year, the movement presented a list in three cantons for departmental elections, suspending the PS department president, Stephane Troussel. The commitment would cost resources to Assad’s association, which has seen aid dwindle, he told Le Parisien last year. He then ran in the 2022 legislative elections under his collective banner, winning about 20% of the vote in the first round. During the European elections he teamed up with the LFI-backed People’s Union to defend the “subversive left”.

Her current rival Raquel Garrido ridiculed “the pseudo-rebel who in the city works for Madame Lagarde in the town hall of Drancy.” In 2022, the chosen one won a hard-fought race in territory previously acquired by UDI. Ali Diouara is actually in charge of the commune’s Community Resource Center, whose advisor is Aude Lagarde, a representative of the right-wing party. For his part, he called on dissidents, including his rival, to show “responsibility.”

Emergency doctor confronts Alexis Corbiere

Back in Seine-Saint-Denis, 38-year-old emergency doctor Sabrina Ali Benali, unknown in the department, will meet Alexis Corbières in the area including Montreuil and Bagnolet. One who manifests himself in extreme situations, in the inhumanity that is imposed on us everywhere for the sake of profitability.”

In January 2017, Sabrina Ali Benali, then an emergency department trainee, questioned then-Health Minister Marisol Touraine about hospital bed shortages in a video viewed eleven million times in a matter of days. “At Madame Touraine’s hospital there is an emergency every day! “, she harshly criticized. The cry of alarm was then conveyed the following year in the book “Trainee Riot – A State of Emergency in a Hospital” (published by Cherche Midi), in which she recalls the “enormous deficiencies that are destroying the hospital establishment”, which LinkedIn details. check.

An activist in the Left Party, she supported the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2017 before becoming a member of parliament for the rebel Popular Union. Now a candidate for legislative elections, she nevertheless promises not to “completely exit the state of emergency.” “Without treatment, part of me will go away,” X said.

Confederal Secretary of the CGT is running

On the Paris side, CGT trade unionist Céline Verzeletti preferred Danielle Simonnet. “We are influenced by the ideas of the far right and their trivialization. The current government has a great responsibility, in particular Emmanuel Macron,” accused the secretary of the trade union confederation a few days ago. Coming from a family of communists and CGT activists, she joined the union at the age of 20, when she decided to attack Prud’Hommes, a cleaning company where she worked irregularly, France Culture reports. She then worked in prison administration, at Baumet prison and then in the Paris region.

Responsible for the struggle within the union, with the support of the major federations, she fought to become general secretary and replace Philippe Martinez at the head of the CGT, a position that was eventually given to Sophie Binet. In 2022, she notably took part in a march against the high cost of living organized by Nupes, a leftist alliance formed during these elections, BFMTV reports.

Graduate of the Faculty of Geography of Bouches-du-Rhône.

In Marseille, instead of Hendrik Davi, Allan Popelard, a regular contributor to the newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique, was inaugurated. “In less than a month, we can defeat the far right and put an end to Macron. Rule the country and rediscover the taste of happiness,” he responded on his X account.

A high school teacher, he is an associate professor of geography and co-director of that department at the La Boétie Institute, the intellectual foundation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “He is a good activist, but he does not belong to civil society,” criticized his ousted rival Hendrik Davi, who called on France 3 for the professor to “be reasonable and withdraw his candidacy.” Before entering politics, he was an environmental researcher.

In Ille et Vilaine, former European candidate

In the 1st constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine, Brestoise Marie Semer was elected to replace Frédéric Mathieu. She was in 17th place on the list of rebels in the European elections. “We will not give anything to the extreme right or macrons who violate social rights, and we will win, strong in the Union! “,” she said on her X account.

An educational specialist working in the Department of Children and Families at the Faculty of Finistère, she “participated in the creation of the alternative union ESR (higher education and research)” during her studies, she explained to Ouest-France. A member of the Popular Union parliament close to Louis Boyard, she assures Télégramme that she “knows Rennes well” and admits that she is “proud to represent the New Popular Front.”

On the Somme, former LFI MP staffer

The latest victim of the LFI evictions, Guillaume Anselet, President of Picardie Debout! who supports François Ruffin and the unsuccessful candidate for the 2022 legislative elections under the Nupes flag, was replaced in the 5th constituency of the Somme by Simon Mauger. According to Le Courrier Picard, which however emphasizes that it is presented as “from Picardy”, the aspiring member of parliament who will compete in 2022 in Sables d’Olonne, in the Vendée, has parachuted.

Author of last year’s book “Robespierre l’Harmattan” (Éditions L’Harmattan), which had a foreword by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this former National Assembly staffer LFI MP Benedict Thorin is being replaced by Alice Berger, former secretary of the LFI Party, reports Le Bonhomme Picard.