The 48-year-old candidate was elected in the 7ᵉ Val-de-Marne district against Roxana Maracineanu, former Minister of Sports of Emmanuel Macron.
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His glory day has arrived. That evening, even the sky seems to have wanted to congratulate her: the lightnings sprang like so many fireworks, a few minutes after her victory. With 177 votes. Regardless of the gap: Sunday June 19, Rachel Keke was elected deputy for the 7ᵉ district of Val-de-Marne with 50.30 % of the votes cast.
Invested by the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), the candidate for the indelible smile beat her opponent with the presidential majority, Roxana Maracineanu (49.70 %). “Tomorrow, she will receive a tricolor scarf. We are used to seeing that on TV,” was surprised Abass Fofana, her nephew, still sounded by emotion. “You are going to make the assembly tremble, does not cry,” said a friend to Rachel Keke that she huggedly. “My victory is historic,” hammered the new elected official who describes herself as “a warrior”.
So anything is possible. A 48 -year -old maid can access one of the most prestigious functions in the Republic by eliminating a former Emmanuel Macron sports minister. “Policy is accessible to everyone on condition of getting involved,” said Stéphanie Daumin, the mayor (PCF) of Chevilly-Larue where M me keke resides. “We were told that the constituency was ingestable; we just had to go there, reported Sylvain Mailler, its campaign director. It represents the Republic, a Republic which has trouble promoting people like it. It is a little Miracle. “
At the city theater, close, activists or anonymous people wanted to kiss their deputy and dance alongside him. There have been many cameras to keep this moment of history. Journalists, Rachel Keke saw heaps on May 25, 2021, at the exit of the Ibis-Batignolles hotel, in Paris, who came to immortalize his victory and that of his nineteen other colleagues against the Accor group and his sub -traitant of the STN cleaning, thus putting an end to twenty-two months of conflict.
long “invisible”
This mother of five, in easy and simple contact, has not always lived in the Paris region. Born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, she arrived in France at 26, in 2000, after the military coup who overthrew Henri Konan Bédié. She was first hairdresser, maid, then governess, before being naturalized in 2015. Rachel Keke has long been an “invisible”, like these workers who sort in the shade of the offices. During her conflict with her employer, she denounced the overtime unpaid, the hellish rates, and the violence of the subcontracting which returns, for her, to “mistreatment”.
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