“The gas station is the only place in France where the one who holds the gun is also the one who is held up.
The former communist presidential candidate Fabien Roussel, noted for his banter during the campaign, was awarded the 2022 "Press club, humor and politics" prize on Tuesday for a joke about fuel prices.
The deputy from the North launched this sentence on TF1 on March 14, seducing the jury chaired by journalist Olivier de Lagarde (France Info).
The jury prize is awarded to former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who declared to Le
Point
, about Valérie Pécresse's candidacy for the presidency: "It's not because you buy paint, a canvas and brushes that you become Picasso.
Valérie Pécresse, she took my ideas, my program and she made 4.8% ”.
Fabien Roussel succeeds Macronist Minister Marlène Schiappa on the list of winners of this prize for the phrase deemed the funniest, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Anatomy and words of love
Other political personalities have been awarded prizes, in particular the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe who declared about the Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon during the legislative elections: "It takes a certain audacity for someone who has been beaten at a election where he was a candidate can think that he will be elected in an election where he is not a candidate!
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The socialist mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo received the Resilience Prize for having declared "Every morning, I get up thinking that everyone loves me" while the former Renaissance deputy Thierry Solère received that of the encouragement for having said: "My anatomy means that if my ass is between two chairs, I am perfectly seated".
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Fabien Roussel
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