I did not come back I do not have the habit of winning

Brice Hortefeux, Minister of Social Affairs, was expected not to be elected Sunday, MEP. It is not the only one. Portraits of 5 candidates who have benefited from the unexpected scores of UMP and Europe ecology.

Alain Lamassoure, specialist.

He felt the wind of the boulet. Furious at being relegated to an uncomfortable third position in the Southwest, this outgoing MEP finally saved his place. An exit sum earned for one of the best specialists in the European Union to the UMP, former Minister for European Affairs (in the Balladur Government), elected for the first time in Strasbourg in 1989 and who worked in the drafting of the Treaty of Lisbon. Sixty-five years, this former senior official "vaccinee to life against the evils of economic regulation", which was in its time "the Guaino of Giscard", he said, dreams of becoming a European Commissioner. As he believes little, he prepares to continue its "Benedictine work" on the reform of the financing of the European budget.

Philippe Juvin, the sarkozyste.

"This is the definition of the good surprise," he says about his election. Fifth on the list in Ile-de-France UMP, this man of forty-five years started his political career in 2001. Today, described as a "man of Nicolas Sarkozy" will have to sort its duties. It will waive the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine (he is Vice President), but is "a few months" to see if he can reconcile Strasbourg with its town hall of La Garenne-Colombes, his position as the UMP national Secretary and his professional activity: head of emergencies at hôpital Beaujon, Clichy. Man of convictions, the Professor of anesthesia who participated in the drafting of the health of Sarkozy's electoral program part, spent two months, last year, in a hospital in Afghanistan.

Nora Berra, the deserving.

Its name flows to join the Government, which is "flattering", admits. Until his election to the European Parliament, while it was in fifth position on the list UMP in the Southeast, the forty-five-year-old woman was did know that on the political Lyon. Municipal councillor of Neuville-sur-Saône since 2001, this practitioner at the Edouard-Herriot hospital, of Maghreb origin, joined in 2008 the ranks of the opposition in the city of Lyon. "Activist of the equality of opportunities", she was born into a family of 11 children, "in conditions where only the Republican school could raise" (his father, "illiterate", was foxhole during the second world war). She said to have removed a "principle of life: work and merit."

Karima Delli, young grows.

Political science thesis will wait. Because it is on the banks of the European Parliament that it are the next five years. This activist of twenty-nine years, fourth list Europe ecology in Ile-de-France, was number one of the young Greens and Parliamentary Secretary to the Senate. But it was especially made note until then by its participation in the Thursday black collective fight against evil-housing for young people and its commitment to save the rich, it is one of the founders. Her watchword "do policy otherwise" is in the image of its atypical route: ninth of a family of Algerian origin of 13 children, she began her studies by a BTS in commercial action.

Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, activist.

"I did not come back, I do not have the habit of winning...". "This woman of sixty years, second list Europe ecology in the West, his election was a taste of revenge. At Rennes, where she was Assistant to the Mayor and leader of the Greens in the 2008 municipal, ecologists arrived in head with 27.4 of the vote. A score of "unimaginable" for this long-standing activist, who has struggled since the 1960s for the IVG and contraception. She then entered the anti-nuclear fight and rallied the Greens. Now senior advisor of education in a lycée in Rennes, she knows that his newspaper will be turned upside down as it has well exercise its mandate of MEP full time.