It could only be him. The dissolution had barely been announced by Emmanuel Macron, Léon Thébault was already calling himself a candidate in the first constituency… and ultimately what does the score of his political family, The Greens, matter, not even collecting 5% in the constituency. The young man tried the experiment in 2022, when he was a student at Sciences-Po Paris, and it is quite natural that he will represent the united left again in the next election. Because Léon Thébault, today a collaborator of the environmentalist senator Monique de Marco – elected in Gironde and born in… Decazeville –, ultimately never abandoned the political battle despite the cabal launched two years ago by the influencer of extreme right, Damien Rieu, accusing him of consuming cocaine on a video… The Marcillacois defended himself, kept his back until reaching the second round and gradually asserted himself as a politician who counts in the departmental landscape. Whether within the EELV party for which he has multiplied press conferences locally or even on social networks against his main competitor: Stéphane Mazars. He regularly denounces the positions of the outgoing MP. And his “inaction for the territory like a good little soldier of Macron”as he hammered home during his meeting at the Rodez village hall or even during the recent agricultural crisis.
Wanting to be there “force of change”, “the only credible alternative to Macron”the 23-year-old candidate, still dressed in his white shirt, recently confided that he felt “an unprecedented dynamic” raised by the New Popular Front. Better than that of Nupes in 2022? It then allowed her to pass the first round with 21.55% of the votes, far ahead of the representative of the National Rally. But since then, everything has changed. “We must not despise the voters of the extreme right but above all remember that their program does not hold”, he briefly explained recently. Because Léon Thébault targeted his opponent. And it’s Stéphane Mazars.
