The legislative elections to be held on June 12 and 19, 2022 shine the spotlight on different personalities. One of them is Gabriel Amard, Nupes candidate in Villeurbanne who has been in politics for thirty-five years. He is also known for another reason than his commitment: he is the son-in-law of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, boss of La France insoumise, who carried the new union of the left (NUPES). A proximity that is criticized, he was thus accused of being parachuted into the Rhône. In his portrait for Releasehe regrets being reduced to being the husband of the only daughter of the former presidential candidate, Maryline.
Gabriel Amard is presented as a “close guard soldier, both political adviser and logistician, who pushed the door of Senator Mélenchon’s office in November 1986“. An invested activist who is proud of what he presents as a “new page of history“.
Of his link with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s daughter, Maryline, his only daughter, he will say nothing: “Could you not reduce thirty-five years of political life to my relatives?“Another close to the leader of the Insoumis, Alexis Corbière, will be more talkative, describing the Amard-Mélenchon spouses as a “very loving and friendly couple“. They are the parents of a daughter, Eglantine 14 years old, so granddaughter of the former senator who forbids him only one thing, to nickname him grandpa. From previous unions, Gabriel Amard is also the father of Lucie, 29 years old, who runs spas in Paris, and Pierre, 25, a physiotherapist in Dijon. With his wife, he set up a publishing cooperative, Editions 2031, the year during which the ecological disaster would have become irreversible. His wife is there. editorial secretary.
Mounia Benaïli, a close collaborator in Essonne for fifteen years, believes that Gabriel Amard has been served more than served by his link with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. For the time being, the 55-year-old politician is concentrating on his campaign, he who has been “candidate three times and failed three times: in the European elections of 2014 and 2019, and in the legislative elections of 2017“. To relax, this quasi-vegetarian watches Italian films from the 60s in original version, observes insects, goes on vacation with his children, and cooks the vegetables he finds in the fridge.