Laurent Wauquiez dressed for the Miquelon winter

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In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the ecologists are "good people"—they say so themselves—because they plan to reward even their worst political enemy. In any case, they were found funny when they announced on April 10 the launch of a fundraising campaign to offer Wauquiez a plane ticket to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, "so that he can go and talk about his proposal to the 5,800 or so inhabitants of this magnificent archipelago and take the time to think about it during his trip." Indeed, the Haute-Loire MP, then a contender for the leadership of his party, was caught red- handed. campaign for having proposed on a Bolloré media outlet to "lock up foreigners under an OQTF" on this French island in North America, located 4,300 km from Paris.

Since "it's an average of 5°C throughout the year and there are 146 days of rain and snow," this should "get everyone thinking," the new weather influencer had tried, apparently delighted to restore the prison to freezing mode. Since then, the former president-but-still-special-advisor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has received a severe beating in the internal LR election against Retailleau, another OQTF champion.

The Greens, however, remain generous with the right-winger who "now has time to go to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon," mocked Fabienne Grébert and Benjamin Joyeux, Green regional councilors for Haute-Savoie, yesterday. In one month, their fundraising campaign still raised €3,200, demonstrating "that our fellow citizens still know how to show humor and solidarity despite the current xenophobic atmosphere," the elected officials emphasized. Because this sum will actually be donated in Lyon on June 5 to Cimade, an association supporting migrants, "far from the political swagger and the pathetic race for far-right ideas." So Wauquiez is dressed for winter—which, remember, lasts half the year in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.