The spokesperson for the Younger Anti-Fascist Guard, who was harshly criticized throughout the marketing campaign, was elected in opposition to the Nationwide Rally (RN) within the 1st constituency of Vaucluse, garnering almost 55% of the vote.
An antifa within the Meeting. Defying all predictions, Raphael Arnault, candidate for the New Standard Entrance, was elected deputy in Vaucluse on July 7, with 54.98% of the vote, thus profitable largely in opposition to his rival from the Nationwide Rally (RN), Catherine Jaouen (45.02%).
Large shock, because the parachuting of a 29-year-old activist from Lyon into the first constituency of the division had prompted a stir, together with on the left, when a number of media shops revealed that he was the topic of an S file.
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A profile that this Lyonnais owes above all to his hyperlinks with La Jeune Garde, an anti-fascist group created within the capital of Gaul in 2018, and of which he’s the spokesperson. This small group claims a type of confrontation with far-right activists, by “common self-defense”.
Collection of rallies
Coming in second place on June 30 with 24.76% of the vote, Raphaël Arnault obtained within the second around the surprising assist of Philippe Pascal, a dissident candidate supported by the remainder of the left within the first spherical. “My solely purpose is to beat the RN”justified this former labor inspector, who grew to become his marketing campaign advisor, campaigning alongside him within the markets of Avignon.
“We are going to overlook the previous. Raphaël Arnault is a top quality candidate”, he had claimed in La Provence
. Even the PS mayor of Avignon, Cécile Helle, who had initially opposed the antifa activist, ended up calling for a vote for him, to dam the far proper.
Earrings, tattoos and blond haircut, this antifa from the New Anticapitalist Get together (NPA) has lately woven many hyperlinks with political events and commerce union organizations within the Rhône. Showing bareheaded, megaphone in hand throughout social mobilizations in Lyon or Paris, this activist now near La France insoumise (LFI) strove to advocate an antifascism distancing itself from the black bloc methodology, when armed and hooded activists assault law enforcement officials and capitalist indicators on the fringes of union marches.
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Based on Le Figaro
the title of Raphaël Arnault has been cited in complaints filed in current weeks, as a witness to a number of fights involving La Jeune Garde, with out having participated in them himself. On the finish of June, eight members of La Jeune Garde have been indicted in Paris, after having intimidated a 15-year-old boy within the Paris metro, with suspicions of anti-Semitism.
