Since, to the great displeasure of Nicolas Sarkozy, Valérie Pécresse likes to evoke her Chiraquian filiation, it is time to recall one of the famous adages of her mentor:
“The shit, it flies in squadron.”
Jacques Chirac knew what he was talking about, but he also knew how, and at the decisive moment, to surprise his world.
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On the eve of the main meeting of her campaign, the candidate LR receives her share of spray: her salary proposal hastily reviewed, factual inaccuracies, polls too stable to be encouraging, audiences too low compared to some of its competitors, remarks reported by Nicolas Sarkozy that sound like kicking the donkey and, above all, these rallies to Emmanuel Macron shelled with too much care to be the result of chance.
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