00:00 Five years ago, many thought she was Martine Aubry's daughter.
00:04 Now that she is no longer a novice in the political world,
00:07 Manon Aubry made a name for herself for her second European election as head of the list of the Insoumis.
00:12 Former spokeswoman of the NGO Oxfam, she started politics in 2019,
00:17 when France Insoumise recruited her to lead the battle of the Europeans.
00:21 "I had never attended a political rally in my life,
00:24 my first meeting I was on stage and I was holding the microphone,"
00:27 recalls the energetic 34-year-old young woman.
00:30 "They took me for what I was but without coaching me much,
00:33 which might have been useful on the spot,"
00:35 says this brown-haired woman with curly hair, who specifies having learned to walk.
00:40 And Manon Aubry quickly adapted to politics.
00:43 In a few years she became the number 3 of Elephy
00:46 and co-president of the left-wing group in the European Parliament.
00:49 She has a double facet, a small activist side,
00:52 with her interventions a bit of a punch in the plenary,
00:55 disguised as Rosie the Rifter in the hemicycle.
00:58 And in parallel to that, she is very aware of the political, institutional gears,
01:02 she is like a fish in water in these environments,
01:05 says her fellow Euro-deputy Insoumise Lella Chahibi.
01:08 The interest is to assume her activist side
01:11 and to have fun with the difference of treatment that is reserved for her in the media
01:14 since she has gone from the associative fight to the political world.
01:17 "I say exactly the same thing on TV with my French hat
01:21 as I did when I went there for Oxfam, and we will say that I am the huge Bolshevik who wants to burn the rich.
01:26 No, I just want to tax them", explains this specialist in the fight against tax evasion.
01:32 Tax the rich.
01:34 This slogan, "tax the rich", she often wears it on T-shirts
01:38 that she also distributes to activists during rallies,
01:41 which is worth a good popularity rating among insoumise sympathizers.
01:45 Above all, Manon Aubry has a rather rare quality within Elephy,
01:48 without being a historian of the formation,
01:51 she keeps links with the management as well as with the front-runners.
01:54 "I pose myself as the one who brings together all of insoumise France.
01:58 I discuss with everyone", she explains,
02:01 specifying that it is a must to maintain the unity of the movement.
02:05 Because since Brussels and Strasbourg,
02:08 she has remained very active within the Jean-Luc Mélenchon movement,
02:11 to the point of playing an important role in the negotiation of the agreement between the left parties
02:15 which, in June 2022, gave birth to the new Popular, Ecological and Social Union, NUP.
02:21 Unity.
02:23 Daughter of a journalist, she is from Fréjus, in the Var,
02:26 where she was educated in the same high school as the mayor and queen of the city David Racheline,
02:30 and found herself in the same promotion as Gabriel Atta at Sciences Po Paris.
02:34 Waterpolo player in the club, despite her busy schedule,
02:38 she said she hated the violence of the political world with her part of misogyny.
02:42 "The first time I arrived at the reception of the European Parliament,
02:46 I was asked if I was the assistant of Manuel Bonpar,
02:49 elected to his coast in 2019 and current coordinator of the movement", she recalls.
02:54 Even with the collapse of the NUP,
02:56 she takes care not to take it upon herself to the other left-wing officials.
03:00 She is someone nice but in the sequence of the Europeans,
03:03 when she smiles at us, Bonpar or the deputy, David Guiraud,
03:07 she destroys us, regrets an ecological framework.
03:10 This sense of diplomacy, Manon Aubry explains it
03:13 by her role as co-president of a group in the Parliament.
03:16 "I have about 40 deputies who come from 15 different countries,
03:19 who speak as many different languages,
03:21 who have a different political culture.
03:24 There, you learn to manage a collective. "
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