In “Les Audacieux”, Valérie Alasluquetas recounts politics at the local level

Guest of 23h de franceinfo, Valérie Alasluquetas, co-author of the book “The Dauntless“, explains that she wanted a “change of tone” in the way of telling politics. “What we wanted to tell is how, in a territory in economic decline, in population loss, various actors such as elected officials, mayors, deputies, but also business leaders, citizens roll up their sleeves to try to bring back employment, save a business, a hospital service“, she details.

The idea of ​​the book was thus to leave the ground of the analysis to go more on that of the account. Among these stories, that of one of the world leaders in automotive subcontracting who, in the early 2000s, “found himself [face à] growing demand from customers for increased production, lower costs“, which proved to be difficult to reconcile with his family functioning.