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Dupond-Moretti, Macron's “unflinching uncle”?

2020-07-10T22:22:33.914Z


FIGAROVOX / ANALYSIS - Éric Dupond-Moretti alone embodies the original promise of macronism: that of doing politics differently, especially with civil society.


“I have more confidence in the cuisine of my country than in its justice!” “In my time, when a girl refused your advances, it was called a rake, nowadays it is called a crime.” Or again: "I don't terrorize anyone, except the idiots!" These replicas seem to have been written by Michel Audiard, they are signed… Éric Dupond-Moretti! "I'm not here to butter the sandwiches," replied Emmanuel Macron, interviewed by a journalist during the presidential campaign, thus taking up the famous line of Bernard Blier in Les Tontons flingueurs . Macron likes to repeat it: he is a fan of Michel Audiard. But if he chose "Acquitator" as Minister of Justice, it is above all for political reasons.

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In a macronia dominated by enarques, the avocado with a tall verb and a badly trimmed beard, a lover of bullfight, is out of place. Dupond-Moretti makes one forget the after all quite conventional side of a government from which the Walkers are almost absent. On his own, he embodies

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Source: lefigaro

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