When she arrives at Place Nelson Mandela in Chevilly-Larue, a stone's throw from her neighborhood, all you can see is her.
Rachel Kéké, invested by France Insoumise is on the way to becoming the first chambermaid elected to the National Assembly, under the label of France Insoumise, within the framework of the Nupes alliance.
A maid for 17 years, she had been one of the leading figures in the 22-month strike at the Ibis Batignolles hotel, which pitted the maids against the management of the large Accor group.
The longest strike in the hospitality industry.
“At the beginning I received 500€, sometimes 600. Then after the victory, we find ourselves at 1600, 1700€.
Where is the money ?
All this time we worked, where did this money go?
“, she wonders again, more than a year later.
For this second round, she faces the former Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, credited with 23.77%.
After the first round, the former swimmer had caused an uproar on the left after announcing that she wanted to "form a republican front to block the far left".
Words that she assumes and that she reiterated on Tuesday, June 14.
In both camps, we are trying to mobilize abstainers, in a constituency where only 46% of registered voters went to vote.
