Figure of Noyant-la-Gravoyère, Jean-Yves Dumont died Tuesday June 18 at the age of 65. He had led his professional career as a teacher at the public school of Noyant-la-Gravoyère. He was elected municipal councilor of his commune for two terms. In 2014, he appeared on Jean-Noël Gaultier’s left-wing list. He was responsible for industrial and natural heritage, tourism and municipal influence.
He ran in the cantonal elections in 2011, as a substitute for Mylène Canevet, candidate of the Socialist Party. During the 2021 departmental elections, he launched a call for a rally of the left and environmentalists and appeared as a substitute for the pair Hervé Dubosclard and Yolande Gonzalez. He had undertaken the same approach during the municipal elections of Segré-en-Anjou-Bleu in 2020, without success: the left had not managed to present a list. In a press release, the Radical Left Party of Maine-et-Loire recalls that Jean-Yves Dumont was a PRG candidate in the 2004 cantonal elections. In recent years, he had been particularly involved in restoring momentum to the Segrean left through the Atelier Noyantais
underlines Emmanuel Drouin, referent of the center-left PRG 49.
“Ability to unite”
Jean-Yves Dumont has had associative responsibilities, notably as president of the Val du Misengrain, Trout Fishing association, and of the Secular Continuing Education Foyer.
He created the Noyantais Workshop in May 2021, which became the local, ecological and social Workshop at the end of December 2022, of which he was the spokesperson. An association whose aim is to observe and reflect on the actions of the new commune, an association of opposition but also of proposals. For the Workshop, Jean-Yves was a man very involved in local life, he knew how to listen and analyze everyone’s problems. He came up with the idea with a small group to try to explain and also try to be a source of proposals to improve the life of each of the residents. This small group subsequently grew thanks to its ability to unite: it organized meetings in La Chapelle-sur-Oudon, Nyoiseau and Montguillon in order to hear the residents.
A tribute was paid to him on Friday June 21 on the site of the trout fishing circuit.
