Jean-Laurent Félizia, incarnation of a left absent from the landscape<

“My background is political, wherever it is, professionally as well as in community and civic engagement.” This Saturday, May 22, when Jean-Laurent Félizia officially launches his campaign for the presidency of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, he seeks to give himself the stature of the role. To put on the costume, as they say. This young man in his fifties from Var is the head of the list of the Ecological and Social Rally, which brings together in the six departments to be conquered, on June 20 and 27, Europe-Ecology The Greens, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, Generation.s, the Republican and socialist left, among others.

It is up to this native of the Var center who grew up in Le Lavandou to carry this union which he describes in each interview as “unprecedented” – even if Michel Vauzelle, elected three times president of the region, sealed vast agreements in 1998 first round. This local entrepreneur, almost unknown beyond the borders of his department, tries to embody, as he repeatedly says, "the only credible alternative", to Renaud Muselier, the outgoing Les Républicains and to Thierry Mariani, his main challenger, defector from the right passed to the National Rally.

“A non-sectarian ecologist”

With his round glasses and his good-natured accent, Jean-Laurent Félizia has a sweet air. He speaks with tenderness of his Provencal childhood, between peasant grandparents in Trets, and the more well-off paternal family who arrived from Piedmont in Brignoles. Opposition adviser to Le Lavandou and landscaper to the city, trained by Gilles Clément, international reference in the field, he manages a company of 30 people, works in the Rayol area as well as in the Mucem gardens. As a man who sows, he wants to believe that from the land, for the time being without fruit from the regional left, he can make a fruitful orchard. Even though the polls always confine him to the uncomfortable role of the third man. The election is traumatic for his camp, forced to withdraw to block Marion Maréchal-Le Pen in 2015. It has been six years since she has been elected in the hemicycle.

“He is an ecologist at heart and by profession. The direct link to the living, he knows!”, asks Sébastien Barles, executive of Europe-Ecology-The Greens and deputy mayor of Marseille. Many of them draw, like Sophie Camard, Printemps Marseille mayor of the 1st and 7th arrondissements who rubbed shoulders with him during the 2015 campaign, the portrait of a “non-sectarian ecologist”, pragmatic and in touch with reality. He digs this furrow and intends to make an “ecology that looks like you” the common thread of his action.

“Jean-Laurent who?”

“He is a bit atypical in the political field: empathetic, southern, bon vivant”, Sébastien Barles describes him further. Félizia is discreet, too. Unknown to the general public. On the right, an outgoing vice-president of the region swings, with just the right amount of disdain: “Jean-Laurent who? I don't want to offend him, but I don't understand what went through Muselier's head when he thought he could come up behind Félizia…” Understanding that it was this fear that would have pushed the outgoing player to seal a agreement with La République en Marche and threw Les Républicains into turmoil.

The interested party himself recognizes this, he has to deal with an obvious lack of notoriety. During his campaign launch speech, the Varois greeted some tutelary figures: Michel Vauzelle or Robert Alfonsi, first federal PS of the Var from 1997 to 2008 and former vice-president of the region from 1998 to 2015. an honest, nice guy, whatever you want. But he is a stranger to the battalion, sharply frames the latter. Robert Alfonsi continues: "You shouldn't put a guy from a lost village in the Var at the top of the list! The election, everyone knows, is won in the Bouches-du-Rhône and in Marseille. However, Félizia, excuse me for being cash, but it does not print!”

But the candidate does not disassemble and talks about novelty, freshness, renewal... when the political landernau sees in him a soldier who goes to the front armed with a bamboo fork. In the premises near Place Castellane that he took over for the campaign – that of Michèle Rubirola during the Marseille municipal elections – he obviously wanted to draw a parallel with the victorious trajectory of the Marseille Spring. "I'm like people, I'm not from the seraglio," he says.

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