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In 1993, Roger Bambuck, former Secretary of State for Sports in the Socialist government of Michel Roccard, came to Dreux to run for the seat of MP held by Marie France Stirbois, the only FN MP (Jean Marie Lepen's National Front party) in France, elected in the last elections with 60% of the vote. Roger Bambuck said he was not a member of the Socialist Party or any other party. He wanted to be the representative of all the forces of progress and he immediately declared himself to be the main opponent of the outgoing MP. Thus, he hoped to occupy the media field, by making this fight a personal challenge, he, the one used to difficult struggles as he likes to boast. The local press and some national media often held a completely different discourse: they saw him rather as "a rush who came to restore his reputation... a parachuted in need of notoriety... someone who wants to be talked about at all costs... a pretentious person...". Marie France Stirbois, she knows how to plough the ground where it is needed. Insecurity and unemployment (caused according to her by immigration) are her hobbyhorse, a formidable fight, especially in rural areas, for Roger Bambuck. who seems ill at ease in this rather popular atmosphere, to defend the record of the socialist government and provide unambiguous answers. He will in fact only collect 10.8% of the votes cast and will disappear forever from the political landscape of Dreux. duration 53'