near
NEAR or Near may refer to:
People
* Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist
* Near, a developer who created the higan emulator
Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine
* National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR), a form ...
Marchiennes
Marchiennes () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It was fictionally portrayed in Émile Zola's Germinal.
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord dep ...
'') is a
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
region
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, Northern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
In March 2020, Marie Cau won a majority of votes in the first round of the mayoral election (with the entire municipal council also being members of her electoral list) on a platform of developing social and environmental policies like
sustainable agriculture
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. Her inauguration was delayed until May due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. Her election as the first known openly
transgender
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mayor in France garnered international media coverage.