Sophie Hénon would like to see “a united left candidate” emerge

Aged 50, Sophie Hénon lives in Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, in Eure. For 20 years she was a school teacher and after a few years she passed the exam to become a teacher trainer. In particular, it creates distance learning courses for them. Regarding the development of education in France, she believes that there is “a need to completely review the school system”.

Asked what she would like to see in the 2022 presidential election, Sophie Hénon is waiting “a social project” and says it is even more demanding than in previous elections. “My ideal would be for there to be a candidate from the united left. The top of the top would have been Christiane Taubira. She’s someone I follow, whom I admire, whom I read”, she explains. She regrets that those “who said they were on the left went to flirt with the far right, with Marine Le Pen in particular”. Her husband, Jérôme Hénon, mayor without label of Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, is not satisfied with the quality of the debates of ideas in this presidential campaign. “We wonder where the ideas are“, he declares.

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