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Manuel Valls campaigning in Lisbon to get back into the game

2022-05-29T18:01:39.897Z


Invested in the legislative elections, the former prime minister says he wants to give a majority to Emmanuel Macron and better represent the French abroad.


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“It looks like Tom Cruise

,” smiles an observer returning from Cannes.

Same youthful silhouette, same energy.

Both were born in the summer of 1962. You would never think that they are about to acquire their senior card: “

In the compliments department, people tell me: you look younger than on TV.

Like the hero of

Top Gun

,

but with fewer fans on the tarmac, Manuel Valls jumps from plane to plane.

Not for that that he is parachuted, he specifies.

Catalan of origin, he knows life abroad.

For some time he had been looking for a place to land.

He found it.

Candidate for the legislative elections under the label of Emmanuel Macron, his constituency covers Andorra and Monaco, Spain and Portugal.

100,000 voters who have almost nothing in common, except that they are French.

It's late afternoon, the sky is blue like an orange, a steady wind is blowing over Lisbon.

About forty people are gathered along the quays, in the district of…

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Source: lefigaro

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