Gérard Courtois wins the 2025 political guide Prize for “the presidential elections saga” | EUROtoday

Political journalist Gérard Courtois was awarded the 2025 Political Book Prize for Saturday April 5 for The presidential elections saga. From Charles de Gaulle to Emmanuel Macron (Perrin, 464 pages, 25 euros), a narrative of the presidential campaigns because the institution of direct common suffrage in 1962.

Mr. Courtois, 75, spent most of his profession in Worldthe place he was notably editorial director from 2004 to 2006, taking up from Edwy Plenel. ” Gather [ces onze campagnes] in a single fresco (…) Allows you to measure more precisely how the presidential election is the matrix of our political life. It fixes its rhythm, it fixes its rituals. (…) She gives birth to new leaders. She sorts skills and talents. It generally shapes majorities that will govern the country ”he underlined by receiving its price at the Palais-Bourbon.

The jury was this year chaired by Laurence Parisot, former president of Medef and president of the Citi France bank. The other two finalists were Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister of Education, for The citadel (Albin Michel, 2024), and Jean-Denis Combrexelle, senior official, for Standards to assault democracy (Odile Jacob, 2024).

A tribute to New Caledonia

The Prize for the Book of Deputies was awarded to Patrick Roger, former journalist at WorldFor New Caledonia. The tragedy (Cerf, 2024). The Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, praised a book which, by retracing the “Long historical past” of this territory ” advanced “allows “Better perceive what is going on on at present”.

“I reread passages from the guide (…) I instructed myself that decidedly, after we go together with certainties in New Caledonia, with the concept that the previous doesn’t matter, that the brand new world has understood every little thing, effectively so we’re incorrect and we’re going to failure “commented the former Prime Minister, “Small actor” Matignon agreements then Nouméa alongside Michel Rocard and Lionel Jospin.

Last year, it was the political scientist Pascal Perrineau who won the political book Prize, for his work The taste for politics. An observer passionate about V^e Republic (Odile Jacob, 2024).