in working-class neighborhoods, when politics and activism mingle | EUROtoday

In the small room on the entrance to the Château de l’Etang, in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), there’s a attribute buzzing sound. The previous bourgeois home is a historic website within the close by city, made out there to youth and associations for many years. This September night, Graine d’Orateur 93, which goals to bridge inequalities between younger individuals via studying the oratorical arts, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Among the hundred visitors, Arif Emre Atas, 23 years previous, its new president – ​​that is additionally one of many bulletins of the night. It seems in a spot “rather at the top” on a listing “citizen, left” within the municipal elections of March 2026 in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), led by Bassi Konate, former director of a social middle within the metropolis, and in opposition to the present mayor, Patrick Haddad (Socialist Party, PS).

Arif Emre Atas is accustomed to the associative world, a world which has helped him so much in his profession. “I recently saw a photo of my CM2 class: many worked after the baccalaureate, often out of necessity. Others are in remand centers or in trouble”he says underneath the discreet however proud gaze of his mother and father. He is one in every of 5 out of thirty of those kids to pursue increased schooling. An activist in Sarcelles, the place he comes from, he research at Sciences Po Paris – “My parents think I’m the president”, he jokes.

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