In New Caledonia, tongues are loosened.
It has been less than twenty-four hours since Édouard Philippe landed in Nouméa, this Thursday, when he begins to speak to some 130 young people, on the floor of a café-restaurant with a sea view, Le Bout du Monde.
He has just completed a series of interviews with political leaders, on the first day of his six-day visit to the Pacific archipelago.
Now, at nightfall, it's time for a question-and-answer exercise lasting almost 2 hours with residents under 35 years old.
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by several participants, he immediately mentions the “
national deadlines
” and his “
national ambitions
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When you have national ambitions, you have to be interested in people
,” he says, in response to a question.
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