Unknown to the general public, Cyrielle Chatelain, who defended Nupe’s motion of censure in the Assembly against the draft budget of 2023, is considered a “serious”, “consensual” ecologist who plays “collective”, far from “noise” to …
Unknown to the general public, Cyrielle Chatelain, who defended Nupe’s motion of censure in the Assembly against the draft budget of 2023, is considered a “serious”, “consensual” ecologist who plays “collectively”, far from “Buzz” à la. Sandrine Rousseau, according to some of her peers.
The 35-year-old Isère MP, who defeated the outgoing Jean-Charles Colas-Roy (Renaissance) in the second round of the legislative elections, emerged in June by becoming co-chairman of the EELV group in the Assembly with Julien Bayou.
“In this co-presidency, I’m probably as well-known as Julien Bayou, but not yet,” she quipped.
Her baptism by fire took place in September: her partner, faced with allegations of psychological violence against her ex-boyfriend, had to leave the leadership of the group and the party, leaving her alone in charge of 23 environmentalist MPs.
Faced with the fratricidal duel between Julien Bayou and his colleague Sandrine Rousseau – at the origin of the publicity of the accusations -, Cyrielle Chatelain managed to preserve the union between the deputies.
“She did a real job of bringing people together,” enthuses MP and group spokeswoman Sabrina Sebaihi, as EELV MP Charles Fournier hails his handling of the “Bayou affair with precision”.
For Mr. Fournier, Cyrielle Chatelain “can become a personality if she continues to embody the collective, because this is also what makes her strong”.
It would still be necessary for this mother of two daughters who lives in the suburbs of Grenoble to manage to gain notoriety in the general public, today almost zero, and prevent the legendary ego battles specific to the leaders of EELV.
The leader of the Green MPs has already warned: she only listens to “green issues” and more to the Bayou-Rousseau issue.
The former parliamentary assistant of the ecological deputy of Doubs, Éric Alauzet, does not intend to comment even on the December congress, which will appoint a successor to Julien Bayou: “I will not sign any of the motions, my role is that the party and the group articulates well”, explains the one who had supported Eric Piolle in the last environmental primary.
“Access and dialogue”
Engaged at the age of 18 in the environmental movement, the representative elected from Isère, who worked in a federation of associations for integration through housing, then in the metropolis of Grenoble, prefers “substance in form”, observes Sabrina Sebaihi, who welcomes ” his quality, work” and his “strictness” on files.
And “she knows how to work for consensus, there is no brutality in the way of doing politics”, she judges, noting that “she is not in an uproar”.
An elected socialist confirms: “it is a new personality that manages to find its place without crushing others”. She is “a bit like the anti-Sandrine Rousseau. A personality not necessarily well-known, but who embodies a form of seriousness and dialogue”, the same thing follows.
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The choice of this deputy to be the first chairman of Nupe’s motion of no confidence seems clear to some: “She is a useful person for the collective functioning”, evaluates the SP deputy, Arthur Delaporte, who welcomes her concern for “softening and calmness” dialogue”.
This holder of a master’s degree in entrepreneurship in the social and solidarity economy, who defends “radical proposals” in the face of the climate emergency, judges the government to be “numb and closed”: “You are lying”, immediately attacked the Prime Minister during her speech to defend the motion of censorship, denouncing the government’s “climate inaction” and its “reigning strategy”.
The MP, who fiercely defends the left-wing Nupes alliance – its deputy in the legislative elections is an elected LFI –, does not hide her disagreements either, such as when the LFI wanted to vote on a no-confidence motion presented by Lepenist troops. : “We will never vote the censure motions from the RN”, she says.
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Cyrielle Chatelain leaves the Hotel Matignon in Paris on September 21, 2022
• Thomas SAMSON
Cyrielle Chatelain holds a press briefing at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on September 21, 2022
• Thomas SAMSON
