Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Olivier Faure or even Fabien Roussel competed in imagination at the dawn of this new year.
It’s a tradition: every new year, political figures send their best wishes to the French people. To stand out, some try originality. Olivier Faure ventured there again in 2023. After having trained “the bill for the Macron five-year term”in the form of a receipt in 2022, the first secretary of the PS this time staged himself in a video around a Monopoly, renamed “Macronpoly“.
Faced with an actor who plays Emmanuel Macron, Olivier Faure, with his pawn in the shape of a rose, “purchased» boxes like «fight against violence against women», «fight against medical deserts” or “revaluation of the minimum wage“… Conversely, his opponent with his gold bar lands the squares “drop in unemployment benefit», «abolition of the ISF“… We also find the box “49.3, forced passage» or chance cards like «union of the left and ecologists“.
In a completely different style, the communist Fabien Roussel told him of his wishes… after a jog. In tracksuits, the former presidential candidate did not want to dwell on the struggles to be waged in 2023. “We will have plenty of time together to defend our pensions, our purchasing power, to see lower bills, to have better salaries”he summed up, giving an appointment “from the first days of the year”. A few hours before the transition to the new year, Fabien Roussel above all offered the French to “to take full advantage of” New Year’s Eve and “Keep these moments of happiness despite the hardness of life”.
When one does sports, the other pushes the song. It’s to a tune by Michel Delpech (“The Divorced) that the deputy Karl Olive wished the good news to the French… Without depriving himself of sending a few spades to his opponents. “If you saw our bills, in the Assembly, it’s Koh Lanta: the whole Hemicycle wants its totem“, sings the deputy Renaissance of Yvelines. “The left, the right talk about the country but the interest is their party“, continues Karl Olive … while justifying the repeated use of 49.3, strongly criticized by the opposition. But there it is, believes the chosen one, “We don’t want to come to this, the opposition is doing everything for that and the majo must move forward.»
The New Year would be very incomplete without the traditional wishes of Jean-Pierre Raffarin addressed to the “leaders» of political life, the latter received some reading advice from the former Prime Minister. Thus he suggests to Sandrine Rousseau to take a look at What is man? And to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, The sense of beauty. For Emmanuel Macron, it will be Overcome fears and to the president of the Les Républicains party, Éric Ciotti, it is better to read the book How can one be a minister? And if “each book title appeals to the recipient“says Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a bit teasing, “reading these works will be beneficial to all“. On good terms…
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