And the political joke of the year goes to… Marlène Schiappa.
When the Deputy Minister in charge of Citizenship defended her bill to fight against polygamy, she saw fit to clarify: "We are not going to forbid threesomes", a reflection which earned her this Tuesday the Great Political humor award 2021.
🇫🇷Marlène Schiappa "No to polygamy ... yes to the threesome" pic.twitter.com/19g5i4TfiZ
- Senegal24News (@ Senegal24News) December 15, 2020
The jury of the “Press Club, humor and politics” prize, chaired by Olivier de Lagarde, chose this clarification provided by the Minister in charge of Citizenship at the microphone of Radio J among 16 “little sentences” competing for the funniest word. of the year in politics.
"I am strong among people who are on the verge of voting"
The sovereignist candidate for the 2022 presidential election Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, known for his clumsiness, is not left out and is awarded the Jury Prize for his declaration: "I am strong among people who are at the limit of the vote. ".
The former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, lucky, for his part receives the Prize of the Game of "Miot" (in tribute to Jean Miot, creator of the prize) and the Special Jury Prize for his projection towards the Republicans : "When the line hardens, it shrinks".
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (@jpraffarin): "When the right wing hardens, it shrinks" pic.twitter.com/A4kmFdrB9O
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 4, 2021
"The pension reform, we will do that when we fall the masks"
The Encouragement Prize was awarded to Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo for an enigmatic statement: “What happens with extreme votes and abstention is the concrete translation of the effects of global warming ".
The former president François Hollande obtains, him, The Price of the recidivism: "Michel Barnier has a prince charming side for the retirement homes".
And the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachot the Marcel Duchamp Prize for a statement full of elegance: "As my grandfather said, it is better to have people in your tent who pee outside than the other way around".
President Macron was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize, for his response to a farmer during her visit to a fair in Provence: "The pension reform, we will do that when we drop the masks".
Not anytime soon, so ...
"I live with a deconstructed man and I am super happy"
The prize for the revelation of the year was awarded to Sandrine Rousseau, candidate for the ecological primary: "I live with a deconstructed man and I am super happy".
And, finally, the Internet Users' Prize was awarded, ex-æquo, to Prime Minister Jean Castex - "The less we fuel self-propelled controversies, the better we are - and to Senator LR from Paris Pierre Charon:" Xavier Bertrand wanted to be hypersonic, it is subsonic, it has not passed the sound barrier ”.
Sandrine Rousseau: "I live with a deconstructed man".
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- Moments 2021 (@ RienNothing00) September 23, 2021
The “Press club, humor and politics” prize was won in 2019 by Édouard Philippe.
When asked whether it all went back to Matignon, the Prime Minister at the time replied: "No, just the shit".
Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the prize had not been awarded in 2020.