Marine Tondelier, pregnant environmental candidate, tells about her daily life to Le Figaro

STORY - At the end of March, the Ecologist candidate announced her pregnancy to the general public. Getting ready to give birth, she tells Le Figaro about her daily life.

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Every time she travels now, Marine Tondelier carries her maternity suitcase and her future child's birth pajamas. “I can give birth at any time,” the Ecologist candidate confided to Le Figaro a few days ago, from a train leaving for Paris, where she is preparing to present her plan to tax “major transmissions”. At 40, she is the first woman candidate for the Élysée to simultaneously lead a campaign - where her movement finds itself caught between Insoumis and socialists - and a pregnancy.

“I fell pregnant naturally on Christmas Eve,” confides the national secretary of the Ecologists. Already the mother of a first son aged 7, Joseph, she initially struggled to rejoice at this news in the face of the difficulties encountered. “I had given up,” she admits, after a three-year journey marked by a miscarriage and medically assisted procreation (MAP). After the dizziness of the news, Marine Tondelier…