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Yanis Bacha, LREM candidate for the legislative elections in Paris: "I hope to be the very first deputy in a wheelchair"

2022-06-06T18:46:50.035Z


Suffering from myopathy, this 29-year-old former sports journalist is a legislative candidate in the 19th arrondissement of the capital, where


“For a person in a wheelchair to be a deputy of the Republic, that would be nice, wouldn't it?

he blurts out, a broad smile on his lips.

On June 12 and 19, Yanis Bacha, 29, would like to make history and "break a glass ceiling" against which he claims to have been fighting since he was a kid.

A few months ago, this early macronist embarked on the legislative race in the 16th district of Paris, which covers the entire eastern part of the 19th arrondissement.

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Source: leparis

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