When asked about Brigitte Vaïsse (Nupes), her opponent on Sunday, Isabelle Rauch kicks in touch: “As long as we don’t highlight the RN, that’s fine with me”, confides the outgoing deputy for the constituency of Thionville Is, relieved not to relive, as in 2017, a face-to-face with a disciple of Marine Le Pen. She won’t say more. It is neither in her nature, nor in her education as a soldier’s daughter, to be offensive: “I think I am a gentle person, like my father”, describes the native of the Ardennes. Soft but not flimsy. This is evidenced by its capacity for resilience, which has been sorely tested over the past five years.
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Target of harsh attacks, sometimes even on the verge of undermining her physical integrity, this deputy with nine lives has never collapsed. A surprise, no doubt, for his detractors: “When I started, it was difficult to take me seriously,” she regrets. Question of image, appearance, according to her: “I have always looked much younger than my age”. His atypical profile also stands out in the traditional political landscape. Professionally, difficult to fit into a box. A graduate in history, medical visitor in Alsace, she also did telephone prospecting before taking up residence in Thionville in 1994: “I had to work, I needed to finance my studies”, sums up this mother of four children. It was while listening to the radio, with her eldest daughter, then 9 months old, in her arms that her taste for politics was born: “I said to myself that instead of bitching about what I was hearing, action had to be taken”.
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Municipal councilor of opposition in Thionville in 2001 on the list led by the socialist Bertrand Mertz, she won, under these colors, her first vote in the departmental elections of 2008: “It was said at the time that this right-wing canton was impregnable,” she smiles. Very little attached to labels, she left the PS to join the UDI, “rather Patrick Weiten”, in 2015. Before doing it again, two years later, by yielding to the advances of La République en Marche: “I always had a centrist sensibility. On the municipal council of Thionville, I got along well with elected officials from both the right and the left”. It is therefore far from divisions that this perpetual student – she followed two cycles of advanced studies during her mandate – aspires to a second parliamentary experience.
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