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New Essonne MP Stéphanie Atger gets “to work”


“I have probably lived one of the most beautiful days of my life. Stéphanie Atger will long remember this Thursday, May 2, 2019, marked by the transfer of power to the National Assembly which saw her become officially deputy (LaREM) of the 6th district of Essonne (Massy-Palaiseau).

Substitute of Amélie de Montchalin until the latter becomes Secretary of State for European Affairs, Stéphanie Atger does not hide her emotion the day after the ceremony. Her brand new tricolor scarf caused her something strong, but “difficult to explain,” she says. “It is both the culmination of everything I have experienced before and an honor, that of participating in the transformation of the country,” she said.

“I don’t discover the problems of the territory today”

After the emotion, her new status as a member of parliament does not seem to impress this former PS elected representative, notably by the town hall of Chilly-Mazarin, a member of La République En Marche since December 2016. The benches of the Palais Bourbon, if she is not there is never seated, she knows them well. “I attended questions to the government several times when I was a teenager,” smiles the woman who will take the microphone for the first time under the gold of the Republic on May 14.

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Stéphanie Atger’s files for the 6th district also say they know them well. “I have not been disconnected from parliamentary work for the past two years,” she said. Today, I am not discovering the major issues of the territory, such as, for example, the question of transport and mobility, or the development of the Saclay plateau. “

“I am someone who loves the field”

It is in a “natural continuity” of the deputy Montchalin, but with the “social fiber” which animates it since its first engagements, that it is placed today. To fully invest in her new mission, she stopped her last professional activity as director of the Citizen Service, associations and events at the town hall of Les Ulis. “I’m already at work,” she smiles, well aware of the need to make yourself known quickly to the various local players. “I will meet them in the coming days,” she says. I am someone who loves the field, this is where you really realize what is happening. “

Put a face on a name, specialists are already working on it on the window of the parliamentary permanence of Stéphanie Atger in Massy. The photo of Amélie de Montchalin disappeared, the glass front will soon be in the likeness of the new deputy, who willingly highlights her overseas origins and who will sit on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education at National Assembly. A sentence from the writer, poet and politician Aimé Césaire will soon be affixed to it: “I define culture as follows: this is all that men have imagined to shape the World, to accommodate the World and to make it worthy of man. “

“I HOPE THAT IT WILL TACKLE THE PROBLEMS”

On the outskirts of the parliamentary office of Stéphanie Atger, located rue Gabriel-Péri in Massy, ​​the passers-by that we meet admit it without delay. They do not know the one who officially became this Thursday deputy of the 6th district of Essonne. “I don’t know who it is,” says Olivier, a 26-year-old resident of Palaiseau. I did not know Amélie de Montchalin either before I saw her several times on television. “

Bernard, 58, of Massy, ​​is no better informed than the young man. “I just hope that it will do a good job, that it will raise the problems of the territory”, he slips. And to highlight, at the top of the list, that of transport. “I take them every day and it’s often very complicated. “

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