Michel Barnier is celebrating his 71 years today. Among his opponents, the unfortunate candidate for the right-wing congress is nicknamed the “moron of the Alps”. Explanations.
Like Kate Middleton, Michel Barnier celebrates his birthday, this Sunday, January 9. The politician turns 71. The opportunity for Gala to come back on this unflattering nickname that his political opponents gave him: “The jerk of the Alps”. According to the Swiss daily The weather, this nickname would have been given to him because of his mountain origins. Michel Barnier was indeed born in 1951 in La Tronche in Isère, near Grenoble, and would have carried out several mandates in Savoie. The fact that Isabelle Altmayer’s husband did not go through the French National School of Administration (ENA) could also have caused a denigration part of the French political class.
The world, in December 2020, also highlighted her personality to justify this nickname: “Its lack of charisma, mixed with a certain stiffness, and its soup side” would also be at the origin of this nickname, wrote the daily. Even in his own camp, the politician has not always succeeded in asserting himself. Nicolas Sarkozy or Jacques Chirac would not have hesitated to criticize him.
Michel Barnier also described as “French Joe Biden”
A few weeks before the congress vote to designate the candidate who will represent the right in the next presidential election, Michel Barnier was also qualified as “French Joe Biden”, as reported The Obs, last November. This referred, in particular, to her vaporous white hair and to its slender look, reminiscent of the American president.
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