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Lionel Jospin candidate in 2022? The crazy roadtrip of three nostalgic people

2021-10-20T09:22:37.184Z


Convincing Lionel Jospin to stand for the presidential election is the offbeat bet of three friends on their way to the residence of the former prime minister.


After the observation of François Hollande this morning on France Inter on the absence of "

credible alternative

" to Emmanuel Macron in 2022, would it be the former candidate of the Socialist Party, Lionel Jospin, who could succeed in the union of the left ?

This is what Philippe Laumont, Jacques Torregano and Léonard Héliot want to believe, embarked on a roadtrip from Paris to Ars-en-Ré (Charentes Maritimes) to bring the 84-year-old former prime minister out of retirement.

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The three friends yesterday revealed to the Parisian the details of this journey.

For several days, they will stop in different places loaded with symbols for the 84-year-old former prime minister.

The goal is clear: knock on his door at the end of their trip to convince him to show up.

Sunday, either we bring Lionel Jospin back to Paris in R19, or… we will eat our cake with friends on the beach.

"

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The two directors and the photographer entrust to BFMTV to hope for a return "

to Joe Biden, like an old man coming to make all the necessary reforms before leaving to the retirement

".

However, the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac had announced in 2002 his final withdrawal from political life, after his failure to qualify in the second round of the presidential election.

Almost 20 years later, would he have become the rose party's best hope?

Source: lefigaro

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