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2021-11-18T19:10:42.285Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers. David Lisnard is not a candidate for the primary (he almost was), but his very clear victory at the head of the Association of Mayors of France is rich in lessons. First lesson: the safest way, when you are on the right, is to be proud of it. That is to say absolutely refuse the classification established by Jean Cau (to make fun of it) in his famous portrait of Pierre Mauroy: “The left? Good. The


David Lisnard is not a candidate for the primary (he almost was), but his very clear victory at the head of the Association of Mayors of France is rich in lessons.

First lesson: the safest way, when you are on the right, is to be proud of it.

That is to say absolutely refuse the classification established by Jean Cau (to make fun of it) in his famous portrait of Pierre Mauroy:

“The left?

Good.

The right?

A sickness."

Second lesson: rediscover the irresistible force of the verb (Lisnard's first speech in front of Emmanuel Macron did not lack allure).

Prefer the charms of spontaneity, the natural variations offered by sincerity, to the tics of language, formulas of communicators, language voluntarily impoverished and standardized.

Third lesson: seek to reconcile through doctrinal work, practicality, pragmatism the apparent contradictions that any vision carries: security and freedom, authority and equity, tradition and progress,

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Source: lefigaro

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