myRead since 2017 in a traditionally socialist country, the Landes deputy (Socialist Party) Boris Vallaud – who succeeded the Miterrandean Henri Emmanuelli – saw his electorate swing widely – and for the first time – in the vote in favor of the National Rally (nurse registered). On the afternoon of the first round of the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7, in his own town he was only a few votes ahead of his far-right opponent. He wins. But he “humanist effusions” on the Republican front they leave him impassive, tired of “moral outrages” and anathemas against the French who “I would have voted wrong”while 8.7 million votes went to RN.
Beyond the feeling of guilt (“Have we done enough? »), This “political clash” imposes a “examination of conscience” to the elected leftist and former deputy secretary general of the Elysée (2014-2016), who points out that much of what he defends and votes for from Paris is “out of place”, “next to lives”. “I cannot be right alone despite all the electoral and human evidence”write in a small book (160 pages), Permanently (Odile Jacob, 15 euros), in bookstore on Wednesday.
understand “What people ask for and how to respond”Boris Vallaud suggests returning to reality (“Say what you see, see what you see”) already “human things”. What he does every Friday in his office in Saint-Sever, population 5,000, “small house with slightly faded red shutters and rusty hinges”where he receives his voters. TO “confessional permanence” where distressed women and men come to share their worries and sorrows, although often they have no one to turn to.
“It’s distressing”
There is Madame B. and her “bad life” who sees how the machine gets stuck due to a bad check for 20 euros, signed for his town’s festival. “I’m telling you, you’re going to yell at me…”He apologizes. There is this rancher, from father to son, who barely makes a living from his work, this abused woman who is looking for a home for herself and her children, or this bankrupt cheesemaker, who gives his accounting books to the deputy. “Everything is there, in my hands, he leaves it to me,” he told me. “These acts of faith in the deputy are distressing.”writes Vallaud, who calls him later to inform him: “Don’t let a person in trouble go, even if you can’t do much for them or you’ve tried everything. »
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