2024 legislative elections in Yvelines. Best score, 0.75%: meeting with a small candidate who hangs on

And six. After 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022, Alain Lépicier, resident of Sartrouville (Yvelines), is once again a candidate in the legislative elections for the 5^e Yvelines constituency. Under the banner of Workers’ Struggle partyhe intends to make “the voice of workers” heard again for this election on Sunday June 30 and July 7, 2024.

Ce Parisian postman 61-year-old has never passed the first round obstacle. Its best score, in 2022, amounted to a tiny 0.75% of the vote, or 296 votes in a contrasting territory, between rich towns like Maisons-Laffitte and Le Vésinet and a more popular commune like Sartrouville.

Despite these modest results, he did not hesitate for a single second to put his money back candidate suits on the evening of the dissolution. What motivates this committed activist but certain, barring an improbable combination of circumstances, to fail once again due to the rather marginal nature of the far-left ideas he promotes?

Defender of a Left that does not disappoint?

“To defend a program, to send a message to society,” replies the person concerned, moreover CGT trade unionist, also aware that Nathalie Arthaud’s party, which has never won a seat in the Assembly in its history, will perhaps be more than ever “a victim of the useful vote” in this troubled period on the political level. “In any case, we will not obtain what we want through elections, but through the struggle », he argues, still convinced of playing, on his scale, a role of “bulwark against the extreme right” and of not participating in a possible dispersion of votes in his own camp.

“The rise of the RN is the consequence of a Left which disappointed, like Mitterrand, Jospin, Hollande. A part of the workers abandoned the left to vote, out of spite and anger, for the extreme right. This is nonsense. »

He presents himself as a heir of the PS and the PC from the beginning, remaining on the fundamentals: “class struggle”, “defense of workers against the big bourgeoisie and the employers”, “anti-racism”… Ideas which do not take, at least not in this form, to see the 0 .49% achieved by LO in the last Europeans. “We also suffer from low media coverage,” says Alain Lépicier. But we still have a base of activists. We also feel that in the context of the crisis, our demands are gaining momentum again. »

A candidacy focused on national themes

His party, which presented a candidate in almost every constituency, soldierfor an increase in wages for “all workers”, and in particular the establishment of the minimum wage at €2,000 per month. He focuses on these national themes and has not really developed a local program. “Ready to sit” in the National Assembly to “say out loud what everyone is thinking quietly”, he is addressed to those who wish to “vote for someone who looks like them”.

In the first round, he will face seven candidates, including former deputy mayor Jacques Myard (LR supported by the RN) and Yaël Braun-Pivet, the outgoing deputy and former president of the National Assembly. On the left, he will face Yassine Benyettou for the New Popular Front.

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