"My victory is historic": Rachel Kéké is one of the symbolic faces of the French legislative elections that closed today in France.
Former spokesperson for a group of floor maids on strike at the Hotel Ibis Batignolles in Paris, the energetic candidate with brightly colored clothes from the Ivory Coast was elected today as a deputy with the union of the gauche (Nupes) led by Jean- Luc Mélenchon, beating with 50.30% of the votes the former Minister of Sport candidate for the presidential coalition of Emmanuel Macron, Roxana Maracineanu (49.70%), in the week of the Val-de-Marne district, near Paris .
Calling herself a "warrior", this 47-year-old woman intends to "make noise" by bringing the voice of the so-called "invisible" workers to the Palais Bourbon.
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"I knew I would win because I am a great symbol, I have been fighting for 22 months, I know what I want," added the newly elected.
Former militant of the CGT union Kéké will now continue his battle among the gold of the Republic, in the hemicycle of the Assemblée Nationale.
She made herself known during 22 long months of strike at the Ibis Batignolles Hotel in Paris, between 2019 and 2021, when together with other colleagues she mobilized to obtain more dignified wages and working conditions, in the face of what she called the "contempt" of management.
"It is a profession that devastates the body. There are carpal tunnel syndromes, tendinitis, back pain", she told the France Presse agency during the election campaign, still remembering that feeling.
as if she had been hit "everywhere", after her first day of work as a waitress in the floors, in 2003. Mother of five children with overwhelming energy, Kéké was born in 1974 in the municipality of Abobo, north of Abidjan, the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, from a mother selling clothing and a father driving a bus.
She came to France in 2000 and in 2015 she obtained French citizenship.
And today you are celebrating a great political success, determined to make "the voice of the people" heard at the Assemblée Nationale.
from a mother selling clothes and a father driving a bus.
She came to France in 2000 and in 2015 she obtained French citizenship.
And today you are celebrating a great political success, determined to make "the voice of the people" heard at the Assemblée Nationale.
from a mother selling clothes and a father driving a bus.
She came to France in 2000 and in 2015 she obtained French citizenship.
And today you are celebrating a great political success, determined to make "the voice of the people" heard at the Assemblée Nationale.
