These “little phrases” that rocked previous campaigns

Will the 2022 presidential elections be, like the previous ones, marked by the “shock” formula of a candidate? You know, one of those well-felt little phrases that illustrate, years later, such and such a campaign. By the way… do you only remember those that have definitely “gone into history”?

From the death penalty to 35 hours

The oldest have not forgotten how, in 1974, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing reminded his opponent François Mitterrand that he “did not have the monopoly of the heart”. Or the courage of this same François Mitterrand publicly recognizing, in 1981 and when a majority of French people were for the death penalty, that he himself was “not in favor”.

Followed the “social fracture” of Jacques Chirac who, in 1995, already evoked “certain districts with the drift, where the law does not apply any more”; Nicolas Sarkozy’s “work more to earn more” in 2007; The “world of finance, real adversary” of François Hollande in 2012 and “shared project” of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.

(Re)discover these “eternal” formulas in this video from our partner Brut.