One woman's battle to become one of the first women in France with Down’s syndrome to win a local council seat in this month’s municipal elections.
ARRAS, France - Eleonore Laloux has battled all her life to be treated like others. Now the 34-year-old is waging a new campaign: to become one of the first women in France with Down’s syndrome to win a local council seat in this month’s municipal elections.
She has made peace with her condition, she said. She founded “Friends of Eleonore”, an association which challenges the social stigmas confronting Down’s sufferers, and has written a book, “Down’s syndrome, so what?”She has drawn up a list of a dozen priorities for Arras, a relatively affluent town of 40,000 people in the economically depressed northeast of France.
Laloux is running on the ticket of incumbent mayor Frederic Leturque, a centrist who won more than half the vote in 2014 and is favorite to win again.
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