Marie Mesmeur, this rebellious MP whose radicalism stands out in Brittany

From the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, to the components of the “fachosphere”, including Les Républicains, the president of the Brittany Region, Loïg Chesnais-Girard (ex-PS) and even his “allies” of the NFP (New Popular Front) of the Rennes left, everyone spoke out against his remarks. Invited by Le Télégramme to shed light on them on Sunday, the person concerned above all “assumed” them, specifying that she judged “all violence, on all sides, to be unbearable”. It feels better saying it, but it's said a little late.

First circle of Mélenchon

A surprise? Not really, if we consider the profile of this 30-year-old elected official. Marie Mesmeur is among the “linemen” of LFI, these parliamentarians who are members of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s inner circle in Paris. This Brestoise cut her teeth within student unionism at UBO, before becoming national secretary of the Student Union in 2023. In 2022, she joined the “parliament of the Popular Union”, a collective formed to prepare the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the presidential election. At the same time, she was appointed substitute for Pierre-Yves Cadalen, the LFI candidate for the legislative elections in Brest.

In June 2024, after the dissolution, she was invested in the first constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine in place of Frédéric Mathieu, the outgoing LFI deputy. The “purge” of this parliamentarian close to François Ruffin was decided by Paris and carried out by the local Jeunes Insoumis, following a brief and intense campaign of accusations on social networks

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Offensive defense

After this inauguration, the irruption of Marie Mesmeur into the landscape made people cringe. Criticisms that she notably placed on the account of “sexism”. An offensive defense with which she and those close to her returned this weekend, denouncing, after her tweet, a campaign of “harassment and insults of incredible violence”, fueled, in particular, by a left which “instrumentalizes the fight against anti-Semitism to discredit (it).