“I undoubtedly had one of the best 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 officially become a deputy (LaREM) for the 6th constituency of Essonne (Massy-Palaiseau).
Substitute for Amélie de Montchalin until the latter became Secretary of State for European Affairs, Stéphanie Atger did not hide her emotion the day after the ceremony. Her brand new tricolor scarf provoked something strong in her, but “difficult to explain”, she confides. “It’s both the culmination of everything I’ve experienced before and an honor to participate in the transformation of the country,” she says.
“I am not discovering today the problems of the territory”
After the emotion, her new status as a deputy does not seem to impress this former elected PS who passed through the town hall of Chilly-Mazarin, a member of La République En Marche since December 2016. The benches of the Palais Bourbon, if she does not go there is never seated, she knows them well. “I attended government questions several times when I was a teenager,” smiles the one who will take the microphone for the first time under the golds of the Republic on May 14.
The files of the 6th district, Stéphanie Atger says she also knows them well. “I haven’t been disconnected from parliamentary work over the past two years,” she says. 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 likes the field”
It is in a “natural continuity” of the deputy Montchalin, but with the “social fiber” which animates her since her first commitments, that she places herself today. To invest herself fully in her new mission, she stopped her last professional activity as Director of Citizen, Association and Event Services at the town hall of Les Ulis. “I’m already at work,” she smiles, well aware of the need to make herself known to the various local actors without delay. “I’m going to meet them in the coming days,” she says. I am someone who likes the field, it is there that you really realize what is happening. »
Putting a face to a name, specialists are already working on it on the window of Stéphanie Atger’s parliamentary office in Massy. The photo of Amélie de Montchalin disappeared, the glass front will soon bear the effigy of the new deputy, who willingly highlights her overseas origins and who will sit on the commission for cultural affairs and education at the National Assembly. A sentence from the writer, poet and politician Aimé Césaire will soon be affixed to it: “I define culture as follows: it is everything that men have imagined to shape the world, to adapt to the world and to make it worthy of man. »
“I HOPE SHE WILL RAISING THE PROBLEMS”
Near Stéphanie Atger’s parliamentary office, located rue Gabriel-Péri in Massy, the passers-by we meet admit it without delay. They do not know the one who officially became MP for the 6th district of Essonne on Thursday. “I don’t know who it is,” says Olivier, a 26-year-old resident of Palaiseau. I didn’t know Amélie de Montchalin either before seeing her several times on television. »
Bernard, 58, from Massy, is no better informed than the young man. “I just hope that she will do a good job, that she 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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