Her radical postures on immigration from the Comoros quickly propelled Estelle Youssoupha to the head of the activists.

This Sunday, the president of a Collective of citizens of Mayotte is elected deputy and will sit in the National Assembly.

She won the second round of the legislative elections with 66.58% of the votes cast against Théophane Narayanin in the island's first constituency.

Born in mainland France to a Mayotte father, Estelle Youssouffa lived in Mayotte when she was a child and a teenager.

She studied journalism at the IUT in Tours, then political science and international relations in Canada.

She led a career as a journalist in several news channels including LCI, BFMTV in France and Al Jazeera, a Qatari media, in London.

It will join forces with those who have projects for Mayotte

Until then far from local public life, she appeared on Mayotte TV sets in the spring of 2018 during the social movement against insecurity.

A good communicator, her radical positions on immigration from the Comoros quickly propelled her to the head of these anti-immigration activists.

After initially dismissing all political ambition on her return to Mayotte, Estelle Youssouffa announced her candidacy for the Assembly in September 2021 on the public channel Mayotte la Première, promising to be a "mercenary" for this island of Indian Ocean.

Although her positions place her rather to the right of the political spectrum, she has promised to ally herself with anyone who will carry projects in favor of the 101st department without getting closer to a party because "the problems we are raising in Mayotte are not the same as those in mainland France.

Which national party has water supply in its program?

We have developing country problems,” she said on Mayotte la 1ere.

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