Noted for his banter during the presidential campaign, the former communist candidate Fabien Roussel was awarded the 2022 “Press club, humor and politics” prize on Tuesday for a joke on fuel prices. “The gas station is the only place in France where the one who holds the gun is also the one who is robbed,” said the deputy from the North on TF1 on March 14, seducing the jury chaired by journalist Olivier de Lagarde ( franceinfo).
The jury prize is awarded to former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had declared to the “Point”, about the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse for the presidential election: “It is 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. When the Minister Delegate for Citizenship was defending her bill aimed at combating polygamy, she had seen fit to specify: “We are not going to forbid threesomes”,
Among the other award-winning phrases on Tuesday
>> Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe about Jean-Luc Mélenchon for, “It takes a certain audacity for someone who was defeated in an election where he was a candidate to think that he will be elected in an election where he is not a candidate! »
>> Former President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand for, “Elisabeth Borne is great but nobody knows it”.
>> Former Renaissance deputy Thierry Solère for, “My anatomy means that if my ass is between two chairs, I’m perfectly seated”.
>> LFI Deputy Eric Coquerel for, “To imagine that we are going to replace Jean-Luc Mélenchon like that, it is a view of the mind. It’s like asking the question of who will replace Jaurès.
>>The deputy EELV Sandrine Rousseau for, “I would like there to be a possibility of the crime of not sharing household chores”, “The homeless die more heat in the summer than in the winter” and “You also have to change your mentality so that eating a steak cooked on a barbecue is no longer a symbol of virility”.
>> The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo for, “Every morning, I wake up thinking that everyone loves me”.
>> The LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Rachida Datispeaking to Anne Hidalgo, “Your presence at the Council of Paris is as anecdotal as your score in the presidential election”.