It is a year in Parliament that ends with an award. The spokesperson for the Renaissance deputies Prisca Thévenot, 35, became Secretary of State for Youth and Universal National Service (SNU) on Thursday. Replacing Sarah El Haïry, appointed to Biodiversity, the elected Hauts-de-Seine has established herself as a key figure in the majority in the National Assembly.
Accustomed to spreading the word of the Macron camp on TV and radio sets, Prisca Thévenot has gradually become known for her pugnacity and her ambition. “Make a morning, it makes a stature. Make a set at 7 p.m., it makes the audience, “she told Le Figaro last May.
Since her first election last year to the Assembly, where she sat on the Social Affairs Committee, Prisca Thévenot has rather become known on issues of equality between women and men. However, it is the very sensitive file of the SNU that falls to him. With the mission of generalizing this controversial device, campaign promise of Emmanuel Macron.
Born in Strasbourg to parents of Mauritian origin, the former director of a call center is part of a new generation of macronie figures. Candidate in 2017 for Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), where she was finally beaten by the outgoing communist deputy, she ended up winning a seat five later in the very favorable constituency of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).
An identified figure in the presidential coalition, Prisca Thévenot suffered “casserolades” in the spring during her travels, in the midst of a dispute over the pension reform. She has made the response to the Insoumis one of her specialties. “The far left refuses to call for calm. She sees it as a perfect opportunity to spread her fantasy of chaos”, declared the macronist, during the riots which followed the death of Nahel in Nanterre. Now in charge of the SNU, she knows in advance that she will have to respond to a left that is largely hostile to the government’s project.