CLEMENTINE AUTAIN. MP LFI comes out ahead in the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis with nearly 48% of the vote.
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[Mis à jour le 12 juin 2022 à 23h09] Clémentine Autain (NUPES) comes first in the 11th district of Seine-Saint-Denis with 46.15% of the votes, ahead of Virginie de Carvalho (DVG) with 15.18% and Renée Joly (RN) with 13.12%. Candidate for his succession in the 11th district of the department during the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, 2022, Clémentine Autain is also regional councilor for Île-de-France and presents herself under the label of the New popular, ecological and social union on a territory which includes the municipalities of Sevran, Tremblay and Villepinte.
In 2017, one of LFI’s media figures entered the National Assembly for the first time in his life following his uneventful victory (59.52% in the second round). If the deal could be tighter than five years ago (read below), Clémentine Autain seems however in a good position to keep her seat at the Bourbon palace. Its objective: “to prevent Emmanuel Macron from harming five more years, to put in place a program which concretely makes it possible to improve our lives with Jean-Luc Mélenchon as Prime Minister.”
Very committed to the union of the left, Clémentine Autain repeated her ambitions for the legislative elections during her appearance on the program Les 4 Vérités, claiming to want to “build a diverse but coherent majority” and “find voices for dialogue” with the others. left-wing parties. She recalled that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, initiator of the Popular Union, proposed to “build a federation” on the basis of an “agreement on the program”. Faced with allusions to the hegemonic tendencies of her party, LFI, she assured: “it is not just an agreement on the distribution of seats”, insisting on the model of the “intergroup” proposed by the left in the Assembly . According to her, the French left must “live on its pluralism”. In an interview for ReleaseClémentine Autain returned to her longstanding commitment to a union on the left, believing that a “historic turning point from afar” was taking place today, at a time when EELV, the PCF and the PS successively joined the covenant.
Clémentine Autain comes from a family of artists and politicians. Her father, who took the stage name Yvan Dautin, is a singer and her mother (who died of a heart attack at the age of 33) was an actress. The paternal branch of his family (uncle and grandfather) held local and national political office. After the baccalaureate, Clémentine Autain studied history at university and obtained a DEA in the discipline. It was during her university years that she became involved in the cause of women and campaigned within associations such as Collectif contre le rape. She reveals in fact in 2006 to have been the victim of a rape while she was a student.
After her studies, Clémentine Autain became a parliamentary collaborator for Georges Mazars, a socialist senator, before running for political posts herself. She ran on the Communist Party list in the 2001 municipal elections and was elected councilor of Paris. Bertrand Delanoë appoints her as youth assistant and she implements targeted actions aimed at young people (Paris Jeunes). In 2008, Clémentine Autain joined the New Anti-Capitalist Party, which responds to her deep convictions on the left of the left. She has been editor-in-chief of Regards magazine for several years.
In 2014, Clémentine Autain lost the municipal elections in the municipality of Sevran (93), but became an elected member of the city council of the city. During the departmental elections of 2015, she obtained a position on the regional council of Ile de France. Candidate in the legislative elections of 2017, she became deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.