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Hunger-striking baker Stéphane Ravacley’s latest campaign is to become French MP

French baker Stephane Ravacley poses in his bakery in Besancon, eastern France, on January 6, 2021. © Sébastien Bozon, AFP

After working as a baker for decades, Stéphane Ravacley won fame in France for going on a hunger strike to stop the deportation of his Guinean apprentice – then for organising a humanitarian convoy for Ukraine. Now he hopes to enter politics in June’s parliamentary elections, running for his local constituency in eastern France.

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French legislative elections © FRANCE 24
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