Philippe Poutou, three times candidate for the presidential election under the colors of the NPA [Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste]Changing the professional way: the former unionist in the automobile opens Friday, May 2, the day after the Labor Day, a bookstore with his spouse in Bordeaux.
Philippe Poutou (58) and Béatrice Walylo (50) have resumed a small brand near the Bordeaux courthouse, whose owner retired. The trade of approximately 30 m2 will continue to be called “the 400 shots” [nom d’un film de François Truffaut]confirmed to AFP the former CGT delegate of the Ford factory in Blanquefort, in the north of the Bordeaux metropolis.
In the columns of NEW OBSthe triple presidential candidate (2012, 2017, 2022) said they designed their independent bookstore like “clearly left, not trapped in the culture industry“, seeing in this project”Another way to campaign “.
This new professional orientation comes six years after the closure of the Ford de Blanquefort site in 2019, against which the former machine repairer of machine tools, representative CGT, had waged a long, highly publicized fight.
-Elected at the Bordeaux municipal council and metropolitan advisor since 2020, Philippe Poutou had joined in 2022 a film company as part-time employee, in parallel with his political activity. He was responsible for promoting films for Urban Distribution, a company which took care of the documentary in particular “We have the anger“On the fight of Blanquefort workers.
Béatrice Walylo, teacher and activist, was for her part of the group where Philippe Poutou sat on the municipal council. The candidate who had collected 1.15% of the presidential votes in 2012, his best score, also presented himself in the legislative elections of June 2024 in the first district of Aude under the colors of the new Popular Front, reaching the second round before being beaten by a candidate of the National Rally.
The headliner of the party NPA-L’Anticapitaliste has often claimed reading like “Bol d’Air“. “I am a great reader, novels in particular“He said in 2020, saying to appreciate in particular Eric Vuillard, Goncourt 2017 price with”The agenda“.
In 2023, Philippe Poutou and Béatrice Walylo had co -signed a book entitled “A small candidate for the mainstream media“(Libertalia), En Companie de Julien Salingue.
