After an announcement of the entire regional list by videoconference on May 8, some of the running mates in Côte-d’Or showed up this Saturday, May 22.
After a bicycle accident that kept her away from campaigning for a while, Stéphanie Modde relaunched herself with reduced mobility but without losing her determination.
This Saturday, May 22, 2021, his running mates from Côte-d’Or presented themselves in turn in a joyful atmosphere while the head of the list said a few words about the absent.
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
Aged 52, Stéphanie Modde was regional councilor from 2004 to 2010, sitting in the majority of the socialist François Patriat. In 2015, the environmentalist list was not qualified for the second round. Elected municipal councilor in Dijon in 2008 in the majority of the socialist François Rebsamen, she became deputy mayor in 2014. Distancing herself from the PS, Stéphanie Modde has chaired a group of “constructive opposition” since the municipal elections of 2020.
Fabien Robert, aged 48, is from the Saône plain and has lived in Dijon “for more than twenty years”. He is in a relationship with a psychologist and has a student daughter. The home gradually saw the arrival of three dogs and seven cats. Fabien Robert has chaired the association for the defense of the animal cause Combactive for eleven years. Engaged in the Independent Ecologist Alliance, he is now regional co-delegate of Cap Écologie after the merger with Cap 21. He sits in the group of Ecologists and citizens on the municipal council of Dijon.
The running mate castigates the “political detractors” of the colonization of the wolf who have “no competence, who have understood nothing at all and who just want to kill as much wildlife as possible for a potential electorate that they will not have. certainly not even ”. According to him, “security, which some make their own, is certainly in the streets, but it is not within the competence of the Region, but also, and above all, on our plates, in the air that we breathe, in the water we drink ”.
Carole Bernhard, 45, has been a very active EELV activist for several years. She has been an opposition municipal councilor in Beaune since 2014. Being a school teacher, Stéphanie Modde takes the opportunity to greet “the teachers who courageously do class”.
Laurent Monnot, aged 52, is from Chalon-sur-Saône and has lived in Dijon for twenty years. A hydrologist by training, he is a technical engineer in the environmental field. For this EELV activist, “ecology is not marketing, it is not to green a program; ecology is our backbone ”. After a “first victory” making ecology a “major concern”, the running mate wishes “a victory on the political level”.
Myriam Chaouni, aged 49, is a high school and business management teacher at the IUT of Dijon and also a school dropout referent. She is deputy mayor of Villers-la-Faye in charge of the works and administrator of SICECO. Myriam Chaouni joined EELV to “bring to the breasts of small rural areas the message that it was possible to tackle the agricultural transition and cultivate differently”.
Michel Haberstrau, aged 57, is a teacher and director of a training center for the food industry. Making “a choice of life to live in a peaceful universe close to nature”, he left the Paris region thirty years ago to live in Dijon. Today, he notes that Dijon is “becoming denser and more concrete” while other regional territories “are becoming desertified”. Co-founder of Awakening to taste, an association which aims to work on food education. He has been an EELV member for a year.
Aurore Lagneau, 38, is a sophrologist. New member of Génération Écologie, it is involved in the Forestiers du Monde association.
Philippe Schmitt, 59 years old, is from Franche-Comté. After having campaigned at Ras l’Front, he joined the Greens following the second round between Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen. He remembers his protests calling for the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant when he was 17.
Since 2008, he has been a municipal councilor of Quetigny; now deputy mayor, he deals with the subjects of town planning, heritage and sustainable development. “We work a lot with projects initiated by the Region”, he points out, giving as an example a hedgerow financed by the regional council.
Jean-François Notebaert, aged 50, is a teacher-researcher at the University of Burgundy, he wrote a book on the green washing (or greenwashing). A time elected municipal of the Greens in Fourchambault in the Nièvre, he considers today that “the fruit is ripe, we must be able to pick it and all together succeed in winning the fights”.
Sonia Fisel, aged 61, is a visual artist after training at the School of Fine Arts in Paris as well as a master’s degree in cultural professions.
Originally from Paris, she chose Burgundy “starting with the Morvan”. In Côte-d’Or, she has created innovative workshops in the field of great exclusion to “give another angle to art” because “art can be part of what serves as a hook to what does not. ‘have nothing left’. With homeless people or marginalized people, she designs exhibitions from objects considered as waste. “We are concerned about precariousness, everyone has the right to a new life”, indicates Stéphanie Modde adding that “culture is essential, we secure budgets so that Bourgogne-Franche-Comté can help this sector”. Sonia Fisel is a member of Cap Écologie.
Jean Rapenne, 67, is married and has four children. Originally from Besançon, he has lived for twelve years in Côte-d’Or where he was co-founder of Friends of the Earth. He heads a financial group in the energy sector which targets communities, cooperatives and farmers.
In the past, he was an activist at the PSU, close to Huguette Bouchardot. He left the PS in 1990 to join Corinne Lepage, where he was his parliamentary attaché in Brussels. Jean Rapenne was one of the architects of the rapprochement making it possible to constitute the ecological pole. “It is absolutely necessary to ensure that this Region remains republican”, he asserts, already thinking of a “roadblock” against the National Rally.
Dominique Darphin, 63 years old, is retired, former wood energy manager of the ONF. He is active at Cap Écologie.
Arthur Stell, aged 27, is originally from “Ch’nôve” but grew up in the port of the Canal “where he made the 400 blows”. He went through Sciences Po Strasbourg before studying health and environment. He indicates that he became interested in politics in 2015 during “a navy blue wave, a little brownish trend”.
“It is the ecologists who will make the ecological transition”, he believes, “it has been on the agenda since the 1970s and we have the impression of not moving forward”. “We are the generation which, perhaps, will live the 6 ° difference between birth and the end of life”, warns the one who took part in climate marches, with reference to one of the IPCC scenarios concerning the possible rise in global average temperature by 2100, compared to pre-industrial levels.
Marie Sokolovitch (unlabeled), lives in an eco-hamlet in the Ouche valley and is a trainer on non-violent conflict management.
Floriane Collin (no label) is a master’s student in philosophy. It is engaged in the marches for the climate.
Abdessalem Riabi, resides in Longivc, runs a hotel-restaurant. He is active in Génération Écologie.
Stéphanie Afflard (no label), aged 49, is responsible for health and safety.
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