Enzo Dewasmes, 21, is a candidate for the legislative elections in the 7th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes. The law student is one of the youngest candidates to participate, he is not affiliated with a party and claims to be Divers center.
Antibois Enzo Dewasmes has decided to take a step forward. At the age of 21, he decided to run as a candidate for the legislative elections of the 7e Alpes-Maritimes constituency. He is among the youngest in the department.
He is not affiliated with any political party or other candidate, he considers himself “diverse center”. He also has no team at his side, apart from his relatives and friends.
The desire to get involved in politics had been on his mind for several years. The student who has just finished his third year of law in Aix-en-Provence, however, did not think he would do it so soon. But the dissolution of the National Assembly was for him a “click“.
He explains this commitment:
The political landscape has for several years been polarized and lacking in representation, I felt that I needed to fill this lack of representation and get started.
Enzo Dewasmes, candidate Divers center in Antibes.
As soon as he made this decision, everything had to move very quickly, urgently, to meet the deadlines for these early legislative elections. He therefore put together a file in the space of 5 days, exchanged views with the prefecture, collected papers, until he was officially a candidate.
“I think I bring diversity in terms of the age of the candidates. For me, fundamentally, democracy is the representation of the people by the people. The people are not just people over 40. We need equity, older people, but also younger people, we need diversity,” he explains to justify his candidacy.
Today he combines his campaign for the legislative elections and his student job in a business that sells ice cream in Antibes.
Alongside relatives, he spent several days putting up his posters on the panels provided for.
He also had to finance some essential elements for campaigning: “I had to print 30,000 ballots, posters, invest in equipment to stick them up and plan car trips. I can cover all these expenses thanks to savings as I have worked in the summer since I was 16 years“, he explains.
However, he was unable to print his profession of faith due to costs. However, it is available on his Instagram account thanks to an ingenious system via a QR code.
On this social network, he also posts regularly to detail his ideas: B permit, euthanasia, social, immigration. Among his priorities, there are democracy, ecology and social justice.
It’s been two years since he started writing a program.
This political experience is for him, “an investment for the future“.
Ultimately, he hopes to be able to found his political party on a national scale; the delays in these elections have not allowed him to take the necessary steps to do so. He will continue to get involved in politics while continuing his studies; next year, he will begin a master’s degree in business law.
The seventh constituency includes the communes of Antibes, the south of Vallauris, Biot, Le Bar-sur-Loup, Valbonne and Roquefort-les-Pins.
In 2022, Eric Pauget, Les Républicains candidate, wins the election with a large majority of 58.84% ahead of Ensemble candidate, Eric Mèle.
In 2024, the outgoing deputy LR stands again. However, there is no Reconquest candidate in the constituency. The second round seems more vague. A new LR duel against Ensemble? Will the National Rally enter the game? Answers on June 30.
>> The candidates are Eric Pauget (LR), Eric Mèle (ENSEMBLE) Aline Abravanel (Renaissance), Thierry Ferrand (RN), Christian Petard (LO), Arthur Meyer-Abbatucci (NFP-LFI), Enzo Dewasmes, Marylin Zbirou and David Quintella
