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Politico (25 June 2021)

BY CLEA CAULCUTT

Xavier Bertrand is used to being underestimated: The former insurance salesman has been belittled for most of his life.

Now he may be on his way to disrupting France’s next presidential election.

On Sunday, Bertrand — a two-time minister who says he was sneered at because he was a “provincial oaf, who’d never been to an elite school” — cruised to victory in the first round of a regional election in northern France, knocking out rivals from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and President Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche (LREM).

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