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Olivier Besancenot , born the April 18th 1974 with Levallois-Perret, is a Politician French of Extreme left, spokesperson of the Communist revolutionary league (LCR).

Biography

Origins and studies

Born in the department from the Hauts-de-Seine (France), he is the son of a professor of physique to the college and of a school Psychologue. He is titular of a license of Histoire of the Université of Paris X (Nanterre).

He works as factor with Neuilly-sur-Seine since 1997 (he is part-time today, to 80%). He declares touch: 1000 euros Nets per month. In 2007, its inheritance rises with: 37000 euros: 277640 euros with credit. He declares himself atheistic. In 2003, with his/her partner Stéphanie Chevrier, who works with the literary service direction of the editor Flammarion, it has a child. They denounce the profits carried out by the companies, profits which according to them too often tend to be distributed more between the “owners and the Actionnaires”, with the detriment of a “Redistribution of the richnesses” to the employees would hold between its hands the future of the political decisions, economic and social, and this in “exploiting the majority of the human beings”.

Referendum on the Treaty of European Constitution

At the end of 2004 and at the beginning of 2005 it fights for “not” with the referendum on the Traité establishing a Constitution for Europe May 29th 2005, considering this one liberal and antisocial. “Not” carries it in France, in spite of the position of large the left supported by the Médias mass.

Presidential election of 2007

The results of the referendum justify several groups of the Gauche antilibérale to continue the gathering for the legislative elections presidential then of 2007.

In 2006, the LCR does not sign the call “  for a gathering antilibéral and communes  candidatures; ” because the formulations which it contained left “the open door to the reconstitution of a plural left n° 2, i.e. governmental alliance with Ségolène Royal or the parliamentary support for its policy”.

Consequently, the 25 June 2006, the national conference of the LCR announces the candidature of Olivier Besancenot for the French presidential election of 2007. In same time, the national conference of the LCR proposes to withdraw its candidate with the profit of a unit candidate if the clarifications are made as for the relationships to the direction of the PS. The December 20th, the PCF chooses Marie-George Buffet “to carry the gathering antilibéral to the presidential election”; the December 21st 2006, Olivier Besancenot invites the left antilibérale to gather around its own candidacy. The December 29th 2006, it admits encountering difficulties to obtain the 500 signatures of sponsorship necessary to be candidate with the French presidential election of 2007, but it obtains them finally.

The April 16th 2007, in meeting with Rennes, it declares that vote LCR is a useful vote, a vote with the heart and the head before denouncing “droitisation” of the political community .

The April 18th, day of its birthday, in meeting with Reciprocity with Paris in front of more: 4000 spectators, which makes of it the largest Parisian meeting of the party since 1968, and several thousands of Net surfers, it makes a statement on his program proposing the prohibition of the dismissals, an increase in all the wages of 300 €, a SMIC with 1500 € Net immediately, the construction of a million social Housing and the creation of a Public service of the Early childhood as well as Fourth age.

The April 22nd, it collects: 1498581 votes with the presidential election, are 4,08%, which represents an increase in: 287019 votes compared to 2002 and place it in 5th position. Among the six candidates located at the left of the left, it is the only one to escape the rout. Following the second turn who opposes Nicolas Sarkozy to Ségolène Royal, Olivier Besancenot invites his voters to express on May 1st for the “measures urgently social” which it defended during the program, before inviting “to vote against Nicolas Sarkozy, without to support Ségolène Royal” in what seems to him to be one anti-Sarkozy referendum .

Whereas Nicolas Sarkozy has just been elected with the Présidence of the Republic, the May 6th, with 53% of the voices compared with 47% for Ségolène Royal, Olivier Besancenot poses the report that “when the left runs after the line, it loses” in connection with the attempts at bringings together of the PS with the MoDem in the interval turns.

Controversies

In its book, Registered letter with the factor , Henri Weber, former senator and current European deputy, cofounder of the LCR in 1968 and current member of the Socialist party which it joined in 1986, highlights what it sees as contradictions of the revolutionary ideology whose Olivier Besancenot is made the spokesperson in his book Révolution! 100 words to change the world .

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