Harmonie Lecerf-Meunier, child of La Châtre, became deputy mayor of Bordeaux

Twice a year, « environ »Harmonie Lecerf-Meunier returns to the family home, in La Châtre. “No more because my parents really like the city and come to see me regularly in Bordeaux”confides the one who was born in Seine-et-Marne, but spent all her adolescence in the land of George Sand. “I moved there in 1999 with my parents, I was 11 years old, and left after my baccalaureate, at 18 years old. »

George Sand, a name that inevitably resonates in the ears of the 36-year-old young woman, elected environmentalist municipal official in Bordeaux since 2020, and deputy mayor for solidarity. “I went to schools that bore his name but, honestly, it didn't speak to me at all for a very long time, she nevertheless confides. I didn't know her feminist struggles, she was little studied, I had even heard that her books were rather boring. I didn't even go visit his house at the time. »

Fan of George Sand… late in life

Time has done its work. “I became a big fan, I read her letters, her novels and visited her house. I talk about it a lot around me and am very proud of this affiliation. I even bought the book On a trip with George Sand in the South-West and I try to follow in his footsteps during my vacation. » Likewise, Harmonie Lecerf-Meunier struggles to find a sketch of her militant fiber in her Castres past. “I still remember that around fifteen of us tried to block the road in front of the high school to demonstrate against the CPE but my father, who was a bus driver at the time, arrived and told us that it was was dangerous and we had returned”she remembers with a smile.

An anecdote more than a commitment, far from the leading elected official that she has become today in Bordeaux, at the same time as the arrival to power of the environmentalist mayor Pierre Hurmic. It is in this context that she spoke, Friday evening, during a meeting organized in Châteauroux by the local section of Ecologists, at the Beaulieu socio-cultural center.

Objective: present “the social action of an ecological municipality”. “I also wanted to tell them that it is very complicated to be elected, it takes a lot of courage, knowing how to compromise. We are for all residents. Environmentalists want to do lots of things very quickly, but political action requires patience, which does not mean that we abandon our convictions. »

What career in the future?

Harmonie Lecerf-Meunier also advocated “the union of the left and civil society in a drive for ecological and social transformation”. A message sent to local troops to try to debunk Gil Avérous at Châteauroux town hall? “There is one that I would like to see debunked, it is the MP from my parents’ constituency. » She talks about Nicolas Forissier. “He was already deputy mayor when I was a kid, she especially notices. I have nothing against him personally, but political responsibility also means knowing how to hand over the reins. Territories need breathing room and therefore alternation. It is no longer possible to be elected for so long. »

A mantra for the future of the one who is also a national executive at Les Écologues? “I love politics”she replies, but, she says further, “it should not be a profession or an end in itself”. However, it is ambitious, does not exclude a national mandate but notes: “Sometimes I miss community activism. »