who are the candidates for the first constituency, what are they proposing?

The outgoing MP will defend her seat against six other candidates during the legislative elections which will take place on June 30 and July 7. Overview of the candidates for deputy in the first constituency of Dordogne.

Pascale Martin

Aged 62, originally from Normandy, Pascale Martin is the outgoing La France insoumise MP for this first constituency. In 2022, she beat Philippe Chassaing with 51.85% of the votes.

Pascale Martin was an RATP employee for almost thirty years and spent most of her career in Île-de-France. Arriving in Dordogne in the 2000s, she became Périgord president of the Femmes solidaires association.

She began her political career by becoming a substitute for Jean-Paul Salon (Left Front) during the 2012 legislative campaign, in the 3rd constituency of Dordogne. For this new election, her deputy is Dominique Leconte, the mayor of Saint-Martial-d’Artenset, a farmer.

Always very attached to social justice, she includes “dignified incomes for all” in her key proposals.

Berenger Desport-Namur

The youngest of the Périgord candidates was nominated by the Les Républicains party (his deputy is Julie Gesson). The 20-year-old young man, who grew up and went to school in Périgueux, got involved in politics during Élisabeth Marty’s campaign for the 2022 legislative elections. Team leader at the McDonald’s in Marsac-sur-l’ Isle, he has worked there for two years, but plans to return to studies.

In a party in full turmoil, he claims more of the line of Aurélien Pradié, the former deputy for Lot, than of that of the contested leader Éric Ciotti who has forged an alliance with the National Rally.

Even if the first constituency includes the Dordogne prefecture, he sees it as a territory “in rurality” and as such would like to bring the voice of farmers to the National Assembly by focusing on one of their demands, the simplification.

Antoine Coutou

This 43-year-old agricultural worker will lead his second campaign for the Reconquest party! (with Tarick Dali as substitute). He was already a candidate for the 2022 legislative elections, but in the 3rd constituency. Although he grew up in Paris, he reconnected with his Périgord origins twelve years ago and lives in the Montpon-Ménestérol area.

Holder of a literature degree, he says he is attached to rurality, “a beautiful model for the future” with its notions of “respect for nature and roots”. He adheres to the idea of ​​civilization defended by Éric Zemmour and fears an Islamization of France.

In Dordogne, he will campaign in particular on the subject of drugs. If elected, he will propose increasing awareness among young people and attacking networks. On the economic level, it promises to support entrepreneurs by reducing their costs.

Nadine Lechon

Aged 61, Nadine Lechon grew up in Monestier, studied in Bergerac and has lived for years in Le Fleix where she manages a farm with her husband and one of her two sons. Before, she worked for fifteen years in ambulances and ran a ready-to-wear business in Bergerac.

A long-time member of the RN, Nadine Lechon is entering politics for the first time. His primary motivation is to “change things”. Increasing purchasing power, security, rurality, are among his key proposals for the constituency. Her substitute is Nancy Launay.

“I have my 86-year-old mother who no longer heats herself,” she says. I’m not the only one who wonders how to pay the bills at the end of each month. » Convinced that the RN is the solution, she asks voters to let her “do it [ses] evidence.”

Jonathan Almosnino

This 36-year-old middle school history and geography teacher will be the Lutte Ouvrière candidate (with Jean-Michel Villeriot as substitute). He had already worn the colors of this party during the 2022 legislative elections. Originally from the Paris region, he divides his time between Seine-Saint-Denis, where he works, and the Dordogne, the heart of his political commitment.

He hopes to “make the workers’ camp heard in the constituency”. “The number of railway workers in Périgueux has fallen from 3,000 to less than 1,000, the Montpon carpentry shops closed a year ago, the queue at the Restos du coeur in Toulon is getting longer like elsewhere in France…”, list -he to demonstrate that the national problems denounced by his party also exist in Dordogne.

He therefore calls for a start from the workers of whom he would like “to be the eyes and ears in Parliament”.

Clement Tonon

The candidate of the presidential majority, under the label of the Horizons party, which he installed in Dordogne, approaches this “short, joyful and motivating” campaign in “a posture of humility”.

“My candidacy is aimed at all moderates,” estimates the 30-year-old senior civil servant, also a local elected official in Les Eyzies where he has a family home. The one who grew up in Castelnaudary (Aude) followed the royal road: Science Po, HEC then ENA (4th in the Hannah Arendt class). State Councilor, in 2023 he joined the cabinet of the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu.

Clément Tonon will support three points: “the purchasing power of the middle classes”, “the restoration of order in the streets and in public accounts” and public services.

His deputy is Stéphane Triquart, mayor of Mussidan.

Stéphane Lambert

Aged 51, native of Besançon in Doubs, Stéphane Lambert is an independent computer engineer, currently working from Périgueux. Before that, he was an expatriate for more than ten years, first in Dublin then in Bangkok.

Father of a daughter, divorced, Stéphane Lambert has been involved in the associative world of the protection of parental and child rights since 2016. He is, among other things, the founding president of the Équité parentale association and the facilitator of a radio show called “Famille Justice Enfance” on Radios Libres en Périgord.

Former running mate and co-founder of the Defend Children list, he was in 13th position on the Free France list, led by Francis Lalanne and Dieudonné in the European elections. It is this same movement that he will represent in these legislative elections in the first constituency, with Stéphanie Reynaud as his deputy.