“In fact, this clip is totally rubbish.” These are the words chosen by PS deputy Valérie Rabault on Twitter to describe the latest video clip of her party’s campaign published at the end of December. A video mocked by Internet users that has since been deleted from social networks by the Socialist Party, as reported by our colleagues from the figaro.
Although the video is no longer available on the pink party accounts, it was still recorded and broadcast on the web, particularly on Twitter.
In this clip, which lasts about two minutes, we can see and hear the daily difficulties that the French are now facing. “We are going to wait a little longer before turning on the heating”, “the accounts are no longer good”, “the garden will have to wait a bit and the grandchildren too”… Olivier Faure’s party here is the rise in cost of energy, that of the price of the shopping basket, but also the postponement of the retirement age desired by the government.
“left caviar”
But it is in the form that the video has been particularly criticized. “For them ‘the French’ = good Parisian sores”, “the left caviar above all there”, “what indecency”… Several comments from Internet users denounce the portrayal of the Frenchman in the clip: a thirty-something-old woman buying a leek for five euros in your neighborhood grocery store or an employee working on an iMac.
Another scene that made Twitter react: when the First Secretary evokes in a voice-over his fellow citizens who live below the poverty line while the image moves to a young man carrying a backpack that looks very similar to a model sold by a luxury brand.
Since then, the Socialist Party has released another video clip showing Olivier Faure in the middle of a “Macronpoly” party, inspired by the famous board game, lashing out at a “disconnected” and “surreal” president.
Source: BFM TV
