LR candidate in the first constituency of Côte-d’Or, François-Xavier Dugourd launched his campaign this Tuesday, May 3 in Ahuy. The candidate calls in particular to make the National Assembly “a power of proposals but also of control”.
Another campaign, other issues, François-Xavier Dugourd, in particular president of the federation Les Républicains de Côte-d’Or, embarked on the campaign for the legislative elections, on June 12 and 19, in front of more than 300 people at the ‘Aqueductian in Ahuy . More assistance and activists than during Valérie Pécresse’s last trip to Côte-d’Or.
The candidate is therefore invested by Les Républicains and supported by the New Center as well as by New Energy, the movement founded in June 2021 by David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes.
Be part of “a power of proposals but also of control”
Having spoken of these legislative elections as “a very important moment for the country, a country at a crossroads”, an opportunity to ensure “a balance of powers” and to make the National Assembly “a reforming assembly, a power of proposals but also of control, because it would be the worst to concentrate all the powers in one hand”, the candidate LR, did not hide “right-wing values, freedom to act and undertake, to ‘assistance to the most fragile without falling into the assistantship, a republican right which knows how to work with the center’. For François-Xavier Dugourd, this is still capable of being “an alternative to other offers, fundamental for democracy in our country”.
Leader of a training company, deputy vice-president of the Côte-d’Or departmental council elected in the Dijon 1 canton, president of the social landlord Orvitis, the candidate recalled his commitment, also remembering his twenty years spent in the district of Maladière where he was born in 1961, as well as his schooling at the Clos de Pouilly college and then at the Montchapet high school. A candidacy “which makes sense” according to him.
Themes chosen by François-Xavier Dugourd
“There are things to do for France, by trying as best as possible to fight against the fractures”, affirmed François-Xavier Dugourd, he who spoke of the “need to restore the authority of the State in the face of trafficking omnipresent narcotics in the agglomeration of Dijon and to reinforce the means of the Police and justice”.
Regarding health, the candidate judged “a system that is not efficient enough”. In the field of housing in particular, he intends to push reflections on “new formulas for home support and to tackle the subject of carers head on”.
With regard to infrastructure and road safety, he called for the completion of the LiNo in 2×2 lanes and warned “against the establishment of urban tolls desired by certain elected officials between Pouilly and Dijon”.
In “the major themes” of his campaign, François-Xavier Dugourd also retained purchasing power, good management of public money, “support for innovation in employment such as the Territory zero unemployment experiment long-term, support for economic actors, but also for local elected officials”. The opportunity also for the candidate to position himself “for a more efficient decentralized state, to be lightened so that it is much more agile”. A State which, on another level, “must work for another Europe, for another European defence”.
“It is together that we will have to evaluate the effectiveness of the law”
François-Xavier Dugourd then projected himself as a member of the first constituency of Côte-d’Or. By assuring: “I will already be a deputy who works, in daily action, in the districts, in the municipalities, and who must work with the actors in the field in the design of the law instead of being a member who is only a tape cutter. And it is together that we will have to evaluate the effectiveness of the law. My desire is to bring your voice to Paris and not to bring the word of Paris down to the territory”.
It was by focusing on “teamwork” to be developed that the candidate presented his alternate before giving him the floor. Catherine Renosi, 48, territorial administrator, has been deputy mayor of Talant since 2020 in charge of children, youth and education.
“Governing France as one governs a company, that does not suit me”, she launched before recalling that her father “bottlenecked” her to Gaullism. His motivations: “Defend France as a culture and a nation, redevelop its industry and its businesses, keep its identity”.
For Catherine Renosi, “humanism is not the prerogative of the left”. François-Xavier Dugourd’s substitute is committed “because difficult times challenge us to position ourselves on what we do not want to compromise on”. For the local elected official, it is a question of “imposing the debate against deconstructivist ideas which come to us from elsewhere”.
Faced with “managerial pragmatism without ideals on the one hand or nostalgic radicalism for the past on the other”, Catherine Renosi also pleaded for “right-wing values which can provide answers and which François-Xavier Dugourd embodies, the ideal candidate.
Laurent Grandguillaume, Laurent Wauquiez, Gérard Larcher announced in the campaign
If David Lisnard spoke on Tuesday to give him his support and that of his New Energy movement, in the presence in particular of the senator various-center Anne-Catherine Loisier and several local elected officials, François-Xavier Dugourd will receive other support weight during his campaign, including Laurent Grandguillaume, former socialist deputy for the constituency, from 2012 to 2017, with whom a meeting-debate will be organized on May 13 (read the press release).
Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, is announced at a meeting on May 24, and Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, will participate in a meeting with local elected officials on June 8.
In 2017, François-Xavier Dugourd was beaten in the second round by outgoing deputy Didier Martin (45.86% against 54.14%). “The deputy, we beat him with Clémentine Barbier in the first round of the departmental elections in 2021. We made more than 42% while they only made 18%”, noted the LR candidate on Tuesday, at the time of the first offensives of this new campaign on a constituency of 21 municipalities, nearly 99,000 inhabitants and just over 70,000 voters.
For David Lisnard, Mayor of Cannes and President of the Association of Mayors of France, electing François-Xavier Dugourd means “showing responsibility, in a context of questioning the very foundations of democracy, to which the response can only go through strong, clear but reasonable choices. We cannot be fatalistic or resigned. Those who commit are right. And there is a civic duty to exercise.
Alix Berthier
Photos: Alix Berthier
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