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“Alexia who? » In front of the entrance to the “QJ”, the Youth Quarter, the place Alexia de Montgolfier has organized to satisfy at first of January, the safety agent raises his eyebrows. Hosted within the outdated city corridor of 1er Parisian district, reverse the Louvre, the place meant for 16-30 yr olds searching for steering (job, well being, tradition, and so on.) or a free place to work opened in 2021, the yr wherein Equinoxe burst into the French political panorama.

The younger environmentalist get together with 6,000 members – together with 1,000 members paying a subscription – nonetheless passes below the media radar, identical to Alexia de Montgolfier, who has simply celebrated her first yr at its head. A speedy rise for the ultimate yr structure scholar on the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, who fell “a little by chance on Reels [vidéos courtes] » of Equinoxe on Instagram, early 2024.

A leaflet from the Équinoxe party, during the Wednesday market, Place Monge, in Paris, France, January 14, 2026.

Its eco-friendly line “pragmatic”counting on scientific information, seduces her. Its inside democracy too, on paper. “They were calling for people to join, and one day I said to myself: why not, that doesn’t commit me to anything. They intended to bring a new image to politics, I wanted to see what it really was from the inside”, says the 23-year-old younger lady, who says to herself “fairly shy, almost introverted”.

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