Dakar, June 23 (APS) – Samira Djouadi, candidate for Ensemble pour la République, the French presidential movement in the legislative elections for the 9e constituency covering the countries of the Maghreb and West Africa, pledged, Saturday, in Dakar, to raise the voice and defend the interests of these French people abroad, if it emerges victorious from the election in which the first round is scheduled for June 30.
”I want to be the candidate who represents them, who is there to reassure them and to raise their voice very loudly and clearly within this chamber to vote on laws, which we very rarely see in this institution”, she said during a press briefing.
The government candidate and her deputy, Léa Diani, her deputy, are on a two-day trip to Senegal as part of the electoral campaign to exchange French voters residing in Dakar, Saint-Louis and Saly Portudal.
Senegal has 17,000 voters who will vote at the Jean Mermoz high school (Dakar) for these early elections, scheduled for June 30 for the first round, and July 7 for the second round.
Samira Djouadi wants to allow French people living abroad to live well in these countries which welcome them both for their installation and their return to France.
She says she ran in these elections to block the path to the rise of extremes.
The Renaissance candidate says that the idea of running in these French electoral contests came from the shock caused by the results of the last European elections won by the National Rally (RN), a far-right party.
”This pushed me to get involved politically to carry the voices of all the people who are involved in the field so that our society is beautiful and good,” she said.
Regarding themes of priority interest to French people abroad, the candidate believes that French citizens are unanimous in thinking that education must be egalitarian.
”The problems relate to tuition fees which are becoming more and more expensive, hence the need to think about how to cap them,” she said.
The candidate of the Ensemble pour la République movement raised the issue of scholarships for which a solution must be found in order to allow the children of French people abroad to go to French schools in peace.
Samira Djouadi, the only candidate in the presidential movement, promises to propose concrete ideas to pragmatically resolve this concern of French people abroad.
”There is the special health fund for FDEs from different constituencies. This deficit fund is very expensive. We will have to think about an audit in order to find a balance. Especially regarding the repatriation of remains. We must reassure the French,” she insisted.
Presenting herself as ”a human MP”, the Franco-Moroccan intends to rely on her network built over 40 years ”to not leave room for extremes”.
We need a massive vote because “the time is serious because we risk being led by people who engage in demagoguery and who are there just because in a moment, they need to exist again ”, considers the member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France.
The 9th constituency includes 16 countries from West Africa and the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia).
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