177. This is the number of votes that separated Rachel Kéké from her losing opponent, Emmanuel Macron’s former sports minister Roxana Maracineanu, in Sunday’s second round of legislative elections. In a duel between David and Goliath, the outsider finally won in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne, with 50.3% of the vote. A few days before the election, we spoke to this Franco-Ivorian woman who, at 48, wears many hats*.
In addition to her job as a chambermaid and the parental obligations involved in the education of five children, Kéké , who lives in Chevilly-Larue, near Paris, threw herself into the political arena on 19 May, in the legislative race that took place on 12 and 19 June. “I am a warrior. I have already fought battles. I’m ready for this one,” she says over the phone, from the steps of her youngest daughter’s middle school, where she has an appointment.
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