Gérald Dahan is no longer joking.
After being a candidate in 2017 for La France Insoumise (LFI) in Hauts-de-Seine, where he only won 8.3% of the vote, the comedian, who started in the early years at the Cabaret du Caveau de la Bolée near the Saint-Michel fountain, did it again in 2022. But he changed fiefdom to present himself in the third district of Charente-Maritime under the label of NUPES, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, a gathering of left-wing forces initiated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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A kind of homecoming for this specialist in telephone pranks who trapped political figures like Nadine Morano or Ségolène Royal, since Gérald Dahan was born in Cognac on May 11, 1973. The comedian will not necessarily have an easy part to play. play in this stronghold.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon found himself in third position with some 18.6% of the votes cast.
Behind Emmanuel Macron, who came first with 27% and Marine Le Pen (26%).
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In 2017, for his first attempt, in the 10th district of Hauts-de-Seine, the comedian failed to push the two then favorites, Jérémy Coste and Gabriel Attal, the candidate of the Republic in March! , to a triangular.
The first, UDI candidate will collect 20.58% of the vote behind the future government spokesperson Castex, who will win hands down in the second round with more than 60% of the votes cast.
For this second political fight, Gérald Dahan has already found his campaign slogan, which he immediately proclaimed on social networks, next to his candidate poster: "
Before he took the voice of others, today today give him yours.
This barely veiled allusion to his talents as an imitator will be his visiting card in Cognac and its surroundings.
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