"These are things that happen", remarks politely Bruce Toussaint, at the beginning of 2021 on BFMTV, after the funny slip made by his guest, the Tarn deputy LREM Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas who got tangled up on the part of the body where decently wear a religious symbol.
It must be said that indeed slip-ups, other political leaders of all stripes made them throughout the year on the radio and television sets, as shown by our 2021 selection of these “cult” moments.
This is how Jordan Bardella almost got angry with the police officers by judging too severely the quality of their work, that the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, suddenly wanted to get rid of the nursing homes, and that in his haste Valérie Pécresse sent representatives of universal suffrage to court, mistaking them for delinquents. Fortunately everyone clung to the branches at the last minute. This was also the case for Thierry Mariani, then head of the RN regional list in PACA, who officially launched into a fight… For racism, before correcting his unfortunate expression.
In their defense, Anne Hidalgo and Emmanuel Macron ensured the promotion of polluting energies on the eve of the opening in Glasgow of the COP 26. It should also be noted that Eric Dupond-Moretti and Julien Dray had a lot of hard to name Marine Le Pen, confused for one with an incurable disease and for the other with the father figure.
Finally, less surprising no doubt, this egocentric slip of the tongue of Eric Zemmour whose superego resonated very strongly in the face of his colleague Éric Naulleau who relied on psychoanalysis in order to find an explanation.