Louis Sarkozy or the stunt technique | EUROtoday
“Come to my office, there will be mulled wine!” »launches Louis Sarkozy, candidate for mayor of Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), to prospects of the Intermarché, this Saturday in mid-December. “There will also be champagne”, he provides, laughing: “Another politician who lies! If a lie doesn’t work, you have to add more! » Campaigning, it seems like he’s always done that, he’s so comfortable, whether in the street, at the supermarket or at the tennis club where the Unicorn tournament is held.
He speaks quickly, mixes up anecdotes, lines up quotes from Kipling, Chateaubriand and Benjamin Constant (“Sometimes I make them up or quote myself”he slips in full rest). His response to those that mock his pretension and conceitedness: self-deprecation. “Vote for a tall brunette with green eyes and crazy charm”he addresses to a girl tied to his cart. The rebuffs, the aggravated appears just like the clenched fists that refuse to take his leaflets don’t intimidate him. “In politics, it is like in love, both you might be rejected or you might be enthusiastic. The worst is indifference. » This metaphor of affection, with which he’s visibly very comfortable, the 28-year-old candidate tightens it up a bit in all sauces.
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