Published on December 3, 2024 at 08:44. / Modified on December 3, 2024 at 10:05.
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Still standing in his vast office, Jonathan Gretillat wants to immediately send a message: “I am a discreet man, I have always been committed to the common good and the collective. I’m not very comfortable being put forward.” Such comments are often made by politicians and border on false modesty. The people of Neuchâtel exude sincerity, coupled with a deep sense of duty. “It’s part of the game. Until now, I have been above all a man of files and on the ground, more than a media character.”
At 37, this trained lawyer has become a public figure. In May, he was elected to the executive of the third city in French-speaking Switzerland. With his excellent score (the best of the five elected officials) and his political experience, he very quickly became one of the leaders of the college, even downright the strong man of Neuchâtel. An expression that irritates him. “I don’t have the alpha male profile at all.” Embarrassed also to put himself too forward, when his four colleagues on the Municipal Council are women and he is the youngest. And to tell an anecdote: Green Nicole Baur was at school in Bienne with her mother.
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