Philippe Poutou, triple presidential candidate, opens his bookstore in Bordeaux – Liberation

About ten kilometers from the Ford factory in Blanquefort (Gironde), where he worked as a worker for more than twenty years, Philippe Poutou settled, far from the televised debates and the sessions of the municipal council of Bordeaux, where he continues to go. The spokesperson for the new anti-capitalist party (NPA) has taken over a bookstore at the heart of the Gironde prefecture, reveals The New Obs In a report published Wednesday, April 9. A retraining that the triple presidential candidate had been preparing since December, a few months after its failure to the legislative elections of June 2024under the label of the new Popular Front, in Aude.

According to the weekly, the 400 shot bookstore should open in May. From this 30 m² space, which will welcome 3,000 pounds in the Bordeaux courthouse district, the local elected official wishes to do a shop « Clearly left, not trapped in the culture industry », he said to New obs. In the meantime, Poutou and his companion Béatrice Walylo have trained with their friends who hold Libertalia, a bookstore and publishing house in Montreuil, in Seine-Saint-Denis. “I am a worker in metallurgy, I did temporary work in the building and Béa is a teacher, he said. We are well aware of the difficulties. ”

This new adventure marks a turning point in his political career. If he is a city councilor until March 2026, he should not be a presidential candidate of 2027, according to The New Obsnor, in the future, spokesperson for the NPA, which he participated in creating in 2007 with Olivier Besancenot to take over from the Revolutionary Communist League. Revealed the same year for his involvement in the movement against the closure of the Ford factory of which he was one of the CGT union officials, Philippe Poutou had seen the NPA electorate erode over his candidates for the Elysée (1.15 % in 2012, 1.09 % in 2017 and 0.76 % in 2022).

This is not the first time that Philippe Poutou announces to kiss a new career. After having co -written A « little » candidate in the face of « big » mediawith Béatrice Walylo and Julien Salingue (Libertalia, 2023), the elected official had found a job as a promotion manager of the films committed to the company Urban Distribution. The former worker had joined the film company after his dismissal from the Blanquefort factory in 2019.