"I Ask You to Stop": How the Sentence of Edward Balladur Became Cult
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Pronounced after the first round of the 1995 presidential elections, the "I ask you to stop" of the great favorite eliminated has passed to posterity.
On 23 April 1995, Edouard Balladur issued this sentence twice to his militants who booed him. Thirty years later, the expression remained and even returned to the French daily from television to pop culture, such as the Simpsons or Call of Duty.
Died on Monday at 97, the former prime minister had seen his 1995 presidential bet break, caught up with the campaign by his main competitor, Jacques Chirac, who had finally deprived him of the second round.
Annoyed by the hues of his supporters on the evening of the first round of the presidential election, Édouard Balladur asked them dryly to let him speak.
Edouard Balladur, who died at 97 years of age, leaves above all a small sentence launched one evening in April 1995, at the headquarters of a failed presidential office. How did she become Thierry Ardisson's sound weapon on France 2?
How a simple sentence of the former Prime Minister who died at 97 on August 31, 2026 recalls an era: the 1990s.
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