The campaign for the legislative by-election has begun for the candidates of the first constituency of Isère, after the resignation of deputy Hugo Prevost, accused of sexual violence. Everyone has started towing while the voting date has not yet been set.
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For the candidates in the first constituency of Isère, the legislative by-election campaign got off to a good start. The five candidates in the running began touring the markets and discussing their ideas.
The constituency must choose a new deputy after the resignation of rebellious deputy Hugo Prevost at the beginning of October, accused of sexual violence. The date of the election has not yet been set.
Insecurity occupies an important place in this campaign. This constituency, which extends from Grésivaudan to the center of Grenoble, has recently been marked by repeated shootings against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
Opposition elected official at Grenoble town hall and regional councilor, Nathalie Béranger is a candidate for Les Républicains. At the microphone of France 3 Alpes, she attests: “SIn terms of insecurity, there are really things to be done. Today we reached the end“.
She criticizes the position of the current environmentalist councilor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, on the subject: “Today, the mayor also has powers to resolve problems of insecurity. We cannot say that this is the State's business and that it is not within our competence. Everyone needs to come around the table. All communities, all stakeholders must come around the table to resolve this problem.“
In her discussions with voters, she also points to a revaluation of purchasing power: “I believe that the minimum wage is too low, we cannot survive on 1,300 euros per month.”
A security observation which is at the heart of the campaign of the candidate for the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) and the RN, Alexandre Lacroix. From Place André Malraux, near the city center, he explains: “You had a killing at 50 meters, and numerous commercial vacations from locals, tags everywhere. So this shows that we are a territory which is starting to be devastated, degraded with strong insecurity.“
He adds: “We must already try to stop the bleeding and prevent the degradation of this city with its crazy potential from spreading to the rest of the constituency.” Among its announced measures, it highlights the desire to strengthen the presumption of self-defense for law enforcement and the establishment, on an economic level, of funded retirement.
He hopes to obtain more than the 17.4% collected in the second round of the last vote. The business leader had already stood in the previous elections and placed third in the second round last July.
Some candidates also decide to focus on social issues and more particularly on children's rights. The activist for this cause, Lyes Louffok, was designated by LFI to represent the New Popular Front.
“I have worked a lot on issues of children's rights and the defense of children's rights. I am one of those people who are convinced that children in conflict with the law are children in danger, who we must protect and for this, we must give families and parents the means to be able to fully assume their responsibilities. parents and this involves giving them the means to satisfy their basic needs“, he declares.
The New Popular Front candidate in Matignon, Lucie Castets, had once considered running in this constituency, before giving up, “the conditions” to his application “not having been reunited”. Candidate in Val-de-Marne last June, Lyes Louffok was beaten in the second round by the Republican candidate, Sylvain Berrios.
An LFI press release mentioned its desire to set up a “major reform of child welfare”a fight “urgent and essential”. During his negotiations, he also put forward measures to increase purchasing power.
Media lawyer, Hervé Gerbi has also decided to launch into the legislative battle. He has assured to want “gather around the central block”.
Questioned during his negotiation, he declared: “We can clearly see that our constituency, our city, today is lacking in real consensus, without security, with an ecological policy that crushes the capacity to undertake. Well ultimately, we are impoverished, but not only economically speaking, socially, but also culturally.“
And added: “There is a battle to be fought starting from Grenoble and we have to go to these neighborhoods where there are few meetings with politicians, we have to go and talk to everyone.”
In a territory affected by violence, solutions and approaches often diverge. But the candidates seem to share the same objective: to recreate a link between institutions and citizens to respond to the prevailing insecurity.
For Camille Galliard-Minier, “the consensus” is the method defended in her campaign. Former deputy of Olivier Véran in 2017 and also a deputy from 2020 to 2022, she is a candidate for Ensemble pour la République.
Olivier Véran, for his part, announced at the beginning of November that he would not run again in this constituency.
During this first negotiation, she reaffirmed her centrist line. “I come with social democratic values. This means, today, to dialogue and appease, not to be in a divide. These are the values of humanism, of social justice, of placing people at the center of all action, that's what I did when I was a lawyer, even if it was not a political commitment. This is what I also did when I created a foundation in Grenoble which created this link between companies and associations.”
The exact date of this election, which should take place in January 2025, is still not known.
