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I was born in 1989, the year of the bicentenary of the Revolution
,” says Gabriel Attal, from the first minutes of his general policy declaration, on January 30.
In the melee of gray temples, a few eyebrows rose that day.
“Youthism is an illness that can be cured quite quickly
,” smiles Charles de Courson, 72 years old and oldest member of the Palais Bourbon.
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Since the appointment of the thirty-year-old to Matignon -
"the youngest President of the Republic in history appoints the youngest Prime Minister in history",
he rejoiced when he took office - Emmanuel Macron and his family never stop praising his
“audacity”
.
Even if it means offending certain veterans of the National Assembly, who take a strange view of this ode to youth.
“You have to be young to be bold?
And for us, that means we’re out of date, right?”
, rails a parliamentarian from the majority, who has passed the sixty mark.
“It’s all about communication.
You can be young and...
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