Abdelkader Lahmar

Abdelkader Lahmar
Abdelkader Lahmar in 2024
Member of the French National Assembly
for Rhône's 7th constituency
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 July 2024
Preceded byAlexandre Vincendet
Personal details
Born (1971-05-12) 12 May 1971
Lyon
PartyLa France Insoumise
Alma materCoventry University

Abdelkader Lahmar (born 12 May 1971) is a French politician from La France Insoumise (LFI). In the 2024 French legislative election, he was elected member of the National Assembly for Rhône's 7th constituency.[1]

Early life and career

Abdelkader Lahmar was born on 12 May 1971 in Lyon.[2][3] The eldest of a family of six children, he is the son of a printing worker and a housewife.[4] He grew up in the working-class district of Mas du Taureau in Vaulx-en-Velin.[5] According to the TSA website, he is Franco-Algerian.[6]

Abdelkader Lahmar holds a University Diploma of Technology (DUT) in marketing techniques.[7] In 1991, he went on an Erasmus exchange at the Coventry Polytechnic Institute in the United Kingdom, where he obtained the equivalent of a master's degree in industrial marketing the following year.[8]

Returning to France in 1994, he prepared for the teaching competition at the University Institute for Teacher Training (IUFM) in Villeurbanne and obtained his Certificate of Aptitude for Secondary Education Teaching (CAPES) in economics and management in 1995. He spent his tenure year at the Sermenaz vocational high school in Rillieux-la-Pape.[9] Between September 1995 until June 2024, he taught economics and management at the Les Canuts vocational high school in his hometown of Vaulx-en-Velin.[10][5]

Political career

The death of 21-year-old Thomas Claudio, who died after being hit by a police car in his hometown of Vaulx-en-Velin in October 1990, was a trigger for Lahmar's involvement in working-class neighbourhoods.[11] Following this event, which caused major riots,[12] he decided to create an association with other residents of the neighborhood, whose action focused on the fight against academic failure.[13]

In 1995 French municipal elections, he stood in the municipal elections in Lyon on a citizens' list, Le Choix Vaudais, which obtained 7.25% of the votes.[14] In 2019, he co-founded the Mouvement d'initiative vaudais, a collective of residents who wish to give voice to working-class neighbourhoods.[15] During the 2022 French presidential election, he joined the collective On s'en mêle![16] which organises activists and associations from working-class neighborhoods across France, who called for a vote in favour of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for President of France.[17]

In the 2022 French legislative election, he was the candidate of La France Insoumise and the NUPES alliance for the seat of deputy of the Rhône's 7th constituency. He came first in the first round and lost the second against the candidate, Alexandre Vincendet (LR), who won 53.44% of the votes cast.[18]

On 6 March 2024, he was announced in 26th position (not eligible) on the party list of La France insoumise in the 2024 European Parliament election.[19][20][21] On the evening of the European elections on 9 June 2024, and following the announcement of the results, Emmanuel Macron pronounced the dissolution of the National Assembly and thus opens a campaign for new legislative elections, the two rounds of which took place on 30 June and 7 July 2024.

Abdelkader Lahmar stood for a second time in the legislative elections in Rhône's 7th constituency (which covers the communes of Bron, Rillieux-la-Pape, Sathonay-Camp, Sathonay-Village and Vaulx-en-Velin) as a candidate for La France insoumise and the New Popular Front (NFP) alliance.[22] He again came first in the first round and qualified for the second round, in a three-way race. He beat the outgoing deputy and former mayor of Rillieux-la-Pape, Alexandre Vincendet (Horizons)[23] as well as the RN candidate, with 50.04% of the vote and nearly 22,000 votes, and thus became a deputy for the 17th legislature of the French Fifth Republic.[24]

Election results

Legislative elections

Year Party Alliance Constituency 1st round 2nd round Issue
Votes % Rank Votes % Rank
2022 LFI NUPES Rhône's 7th constituency 8,476 30.99 1st 12,894 46.56 2nd Beaten
2024 LFI New Popular Front 20,062 46.00 1st 21,966 50.04 1st Elected

See also

References

  1. ^ Bigué, Nathan (5 November 2024). "Violences à Rillieux : le député Lahmar fustige les déclarations "diffamatoires" d'Alexandre Vincendet". Lyon Capitale (in French). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Abdelkader Lahmar". LyonMag. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  3. ^ Theophile Blondet (7 July 2024). "Législatives : qui est Abdelkader Lahmar, élu dans la 7ème circonscription du Rhône ?". Actu.fr. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Élections législatives 2024 : l'enseignant de Vaulx-en-Velin, Abdelkader Lahmar, bientôt sur les bancs de l'Assemblée". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French). 7 August 2024. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b Christelle Lalanne (11 July 2023). "Métropole de Lyon. A Vaulx-en-Velin, la grande précarité". Le Progrès. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  6. ^ Riyad Hamadi (26 June 2024). "France : ces candidats franco-algériens sur le chemin du RN". TSA. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Abdelkader Lahmar - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  8. ^ "Mon histoire – Abdelkader Lahmar". abdelkaderlahmar69.fr. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Rillieux-la-Pape. Lycée Camus-Sermenaz : le député Abdelkader Lahmar a rencontré les 2 ndes". www.leprogres.fr (in French). 16 December 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
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  11. ^ Elian Delacôte (8 July 2024). "Législatives 2024 : qui sont vos députés dans le Rhône ?". Rue89 Lyon. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  12. ^ La rédaction de l'INA (4 October 2010). "1990, les émeutes de Vaulx-en-Velin". Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  13. ^ Anissa Rami (15 June 2022). "Abdelkader Lahmar, l'enfant de Vaulx-enVelin, en route vers l'Assemblée nationale ?". Le Bondy Blog.
  14. ^ Mohsen Dridi (2007). L'immigration de A à Z. Paris: FTCR Publication. p. 440.
  15. ^ Deleurence, Guillaume (4 July 2024). "Abdelkader Lahmar, l'enfant de Vaulx-en-Velin qui vise l'Assemblée nationale". POLITIS (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2024.
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  17. ^ Anissa Rami (18 March 2022). ""On s'en mêle" : 120 acteurs de quartiers soutiennent Jean-Luc Mélenchon". Le Bondy Blog.
  18. ^ "Rhône - 7e circonscription: Résultats des élections législatives 2022 - en direct". Franceinfo (in French). 29 June 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  19. ^ Romain Herreros (6 March 2024). "Européennes 2024 : La France insoumise dévoile sa liste (avec quelques surprises et une ambition d'union)". Le HuffPost. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  20. ^ T.J. (19 March 2024). ""Faire des Européennes le premier tour de la Présidentielle" : les candidats rhodaniens de l'Union populaire présentés". LyonMag. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  21. ^ S.M. (19 March 2024). "Les Insoumis du Rhône lancent la campagne des Européennes avec trois locaux sur la liste". Le Progrès. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  22. ^ "Élections législatives 2024 : l'enseignant de Vaulx-en-Velin, Abdelkader Lahmar, bientôt sur les bancs de l'Assemblée". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French). 7 August 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  23. ^ Rue89Lyon (7 July 2024). "Abdelkader Lahmar (NFP), nouveau député de la 7e circonscription du Rhône". Rue89Lyon (in French). Retrieved 28 September 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Législatives 2024 - 7e circonscription. Abdelkader Lahmar largement en tête". www.leprogres.fr (in French). 1 July 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
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