“In the middle of my speech, I raised my head to look at all these faces in front of me, frozen in cathedral silence.
It petrified me.
I wondered if I wasn't completely missing the point.
» Monday March 4, the large hemicycle of the Palace of Versailles, where the 902 senators and deputies are gathered for the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, holds its breath.
Claude Malhuret speaks from the podium of this prestigious assembly meeting in Congress… with a lump in his stomach.
Speeches, the president of the group in the Senate Les Indépendants-République et Territories, and member of the Horizons party, is in the habit of giving them.
A fan of polished words and effective barbs, this former doctor with a discreet and good-natured appearance, formerly mayor of Vichy (Allier) and Secretary of State for Human Rights from 1986 to 1988, even made a name for himself a specialty in recent years.
A sniper, Audiard style, who wakes up his audiences with well-felt formulas.
But never in theatricality: "I'm more of the minimalist type, I don't move behind my microphone", he admits to us, refusing to "work in front of a mirror, to act like Le Pen the father".
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