BECAUSE WE. Aymeric Caron, candidate in the 18th district of Paris, met with great success in the first round of the legislative The journalist and writer, who is running under the banner of Nupes, will arrive in force in the second round.
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[Mis à jour le 12 juin 2022 à 01h04] Nice shot for Aymeric Caron. The former columnist of Laurent Ruquier, faced in particular the outgoing deputy Pierre-Yves Bournazel for this first round of the legislative elections in the 18th district of Paris and was clearly ahead of the candidate Together! according to the results published this Sunday by the Ministry of the Interior. With 45.05% of the vote, Aymeric Caron is ahead of Pierre-Yves Bournazel credited with 35.57%. The two candidates will meet again on Sunday June 19 for the second round.
In an interview with Le Parisien on May 4, Aymeric Caron announced that he was presenting himself as a member of the Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) movement, which he has chaired for four years, but seeking this position under the colors of the New popular ecological and social union, initiated by LFI and EELV and joined by the PS and the PCF after long negotiations. In line with the program of L’Avenir en commun, this militant anti-speciesist approached EELV, from which he had nevertheless wished to distance himself by thinking of REV as an alternative.
In the aftermath of a presidential election which brought Jean-Luc Mélenchon to 22% of the votes in the first round, the French left is seeking to reinvent itself to make the legislative elections a decisive “third round”. As such, elected officials from all sides of the left have been distributed in the constituencies of the territory. This is the case of Aymeric Caron, founder of the Ecological Revolution movement for the living, launched in 2018. By presenting himself, he joined the New popular union which is emerging, EELV, the PS and the PCF having recently accepted a alliance with the rebels. This is an opportunity for him to commit to the ideas he defends, such as veganism and antispeciesism. But also a way to fight everything he hates, from productivism to liberalism which “takes more from the plant than it can generate”, as he confided in an interview with the Parisian.
This entry into politics therefore makes sense for him: “It is a fairly logical extension of my career where I went from journalism to committed journalism, then to the writing of books where I approach social projects that I want to carry today on the legislative level”, he explained. He also revealed that he concluded this agreement “several months ago”, ensuring that other candidates from his radical ecology movement would try their luck in other French constituencies. He is now on the list of candidates in the 12th district of Paris.
What are Aymeric Caron’s political beliefs?
Activist of the animal cause, Aymeric Caron does not hide his political commitments. Vegan, the journalist published in 2013 “No Steak”, an essay on the relationship between man and meat. In 2016, he also published “Antispecist: reconciling human, animal, nature”. In 2018, he founded the ecological movement Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) which he wants as an alternative to Europe Ecologie Les Verts. In his eyes, man is the “only animal” which has the “right of life and death over other species”. In this sense, he therefore has an “enormous responsibility incumbent on him, that of preserving the living”, as he explained during his interview for Thinkerview (transcribed by the media Solution). Anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist, Aymeric Caron also takes a stand for the rights of minorities and campaigns in particular for marriage for all. He further shares Nupès’ views on social urgency and political inclusiveness.
On Tuesday May 3, a video of Aymeric Caron goes viral on social networks. This is an excerpt from his stint at C à vous in 2017 reappeared on Twitter. The presenter quoted a passage from his book “Utopia XXi” (published in 2017), in which he wrote “The uneducated and irresponsible citizen will no longer have a say”; on the set, he retorted by speaking of the “permit to vote”. He had developed his thought: “Society decides who can be a doctor, who can be a lawyer. diplomas to each other. In the same way it is society that decides who can drive a car”.
This extract, which very quickly circulated on social networks, aroused strong reactions, in particular on the far right, with personalities like Gilbert Collard or Florian Philippot who insisted on the anti-democratic and elitist aspect of such a proposal. Aymeric Caron ‘explained at the microphone of Sud Radio on May 4, explaining that such a permit was “not at all a measure” that he would carry as part of his candidacy on behalf of the New Popular Union. He justified himself by decreeing that he felt that the age criterion, “the only legislation” around the right to vote, was “too restrictive”.
Aymeric Caron is a French journalist and writer born December 4, 1971 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. After his baccalaureate, he went to Amsterdam for a year and then joined the Higher School of Journalism (ESJ) in Lille in 1995. Two years later, he did odd jobs for the television channels TF1, LCI and France 3. It was in 1998 that he joined Canal+ where, as a reporter, he traveled to various theaters of operation including Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2001, he joined the joint editorial staff of Canal and iTélé, merged by the Canal group for cost reasons. Later, he hosted the 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. beach on weekends from 2006 to 2008 before leaving the news channel continuously.
It was on the radio that he continued his journalistic career, at Europe 1 more precisely where he replaced Marc-Olivier Fogiel in the summer of 2009 during his morning leave. From the start of the 2009 school year, it presents weekend mornings. In 2010, he became joker for Jean-Marc Morandini for his program Le Grand Direct des Médias. He left Europe 1 in 2011 and made a brief stint on the Direct 8 channel.
In 2012, he joined Laurent Ruquier in his show On n’est pas couche where he became a columnist and, with Léa Salamé, took over from Audrey Pulvar and Natacha Polony. Often criticized in his role as columnist, like many of his predecessors, he was replaced by Yann Moix at the start of the 2015 school year. In 2018, he founded the environmental movement Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) which he wants as an alternative to Europe Ecology The Greens.