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CHRONIC. For the first time in forty years, the poster for the debate between the two rounds is the same as in the previous election. A not so easy return match.
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By Michele Cotta
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Lhe second debates are sometimes more difficult for the outgoing President than the first. In 1981, forty-one years ago, it was Valéry Giscard d’Estaing who felt it at his expense. Confronted with François Mitterrand for the first time in 1974, seven years earlier, he had disconcerted his adversary with a single sentence, which became famous: “You do not have, Mr. Mitterrand, the monopoly of the heart. »
The candidate of the left thought he had to be attacked by his opponent on his economic skills, questioned on his intentions to provoke new legislative elections, the last having taken place a year earlier, manhandled on his alliance with the Communist Party. To all of this he had his answers. But on the heart, devil, he did not expect that from Valéry Giscard …
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