Olivier Besancenot

Quick Facts

Full Name	Olivier Besancenot
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 18, 1974(1974-04-18)
Age	50
Birthplace	Levallois-Perret
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Aries

Olivier Besancenot Biography

Olivier Besancenot is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 18, 1974 in Levallois-Perret, Île-de-France, France. Olivier Besancenot was born on 18 April 1974 in the town of Levallois-Perret in the Hauts-de-Seine region of France. The father of the child was an educator and his mother was a psychologist at the school.

He was a student at the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and graduated with a qualification in contemporary historical studies. Since 1997, he’s been employed as a postman in Neuilly-sur-Seine the suburb of Paris and is often ridiculed by his right-wing adversaries by the name of “The Red Postman”.

Besancenot ran again for the 2007 presidential election. His slogan throughout the campaign was “Nos vies valent plus que leurs profits” (“Our lives are worth more than their profits”); and he campaigned for redistribution of wealth, an increase in the minimum wage, prohibition of layoffs for profitable companies, and taxation of profits from capital speculation. He stood for political and electoral independence of the anti-capitalist left from the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste, PS), and against its participation in a centre-left government. Besancenot was endorsed by British filmmaker Ken Loach, known for depictions of working-class struggles. His campaign’s closing rally, in Paris, was attended by 4,000, the largest meeting organised by the LCR or its predecessors since 1968. Besancenot gained 1,498,581 votes or 4.08%, around 300,000 votes more than 2002. He is the first in votes and in dominant position among candidates to the left of the Socialist Party’s candidate, Ségolène Royal. For the second round of the elections, Besancenot, after calling for participation, stated that, “On 6 May, we will be on the side of those who want to prevent Nicolas Sarkozy from attaining the presidency of the republic. It is not a matter of supporting Ségolène Royal, but voting against Nicolas Sarkozy.”, fighting the Right in the street as well as at the ballot boxes. After the victory of Sarkozy in the second round, Besancenot and LCR call for “a united front of all the social and democratic forces […] to organise a response faced to the extreme neoliberal and repressive programme of Sarkozy.”

He was a candidate for the 2007 French presidential election, for the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), the French section of the Fourth International. He gained 1.2 million votes, 4.25%, standing as a revolutionary socialist in the 2002 presidential elections. In the first round of the 2007 presidential election, Besancenot received 4.08% of the vote, just short of 1.5 million votes, placing him fifth and eliminating him from the race.

In 1991 in 1991, he was a member of the LCR. Since 1997, he’s been an active part of the Sud-PTT trade union. He was able to take a break from his work in the postal service between 1999 and 2000 in order to serve as the Parliamentary Attache for Alain Krivine in the European Parliament.

Olivier Besancenot Net Worth

Olivier Besancenot is one of the richest Politician from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olivier Besancenot 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Olivier Besancenot (French pronunciation: [o.li.vje [email protected] Besancenot (French pronunciation: [o.li.v ) born on the 18th of April, 1974) is a French left-wing politician as well as a trade unionist. He was the main spokesperson for the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau parti anticapitaliste, NPA) from 2009 from 2009 until the year 2011.

Besancenot’s involvement with left-wing politics began early. Besancenot joined in the Revolutionary Communist Youth (Jeunesses communistes revolutionnaires, also known as JCR) at the age of 14, when he was just 14 years old.

In 2001 and 2002, he participated in the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre. He gained national prominence when he stood for the 2002 French presidential election. At twenty-eight, he was the youngest presidential candidate in the country’s history. Standing on a revolutionary socialist platform, he gained 1.3 million votes, 4.25% of the total. Among voters under the age of 25, he gained 13.9 percent, beating Lionel Jospin and Jean-Marie Le Pen. In the run- up to the second round of voting, Besancenot urged voters to ensure that the far-right Le Pen did not gain power, by re-electing Jacques Chirac, despite his own misgivings about Chirac’s political positions.

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