These “cult moments” that animated previous presidential debates

From the debate between the two rounds of the 2022 presidential election, which saw Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron “compete against each other”, will we remember one of these little well-felt phrases which illustrate, years later , this or that campaign?

From “monopoly of the heart” to “invaders”

Almost all the previous debates have, in fact, given birth to this kind of “shock” formula. In 1974, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing thus reminded his adversary François Mitterrand that he “did not have the monopoly of the heart”. While in 1988, this same François Mitterrand replied facetiously to Jacques Chirac, who reminded him that they “were only two candidates” (and not the President and the Prime Minister of cohabitation that they were then): “You you’re absolutely right, Prime Minister.

Opposed to Jacques Chirac in 1995, Lionel Jospin defended the five-year term by affirming that it was better “five years with Jospin than seven with Chirac”; seventeen years later, François Hollande declined his “I, President of the Republic”; In 2017, Marine Le Pen mocked (already) Emmanuel Macron by comparing her voters to extraterrestrial invaders: “Ooouh, look, they are here! they are in the countryside, in the cities, they are on social networks! “.

Discover an anthology of these phrases that have become cults in this video from our partner Brut.