Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon chose humor to respond to Laurent Wauquiez. A week after the proposal of the president of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly to set up a retention center for foreigners under OQTF in the archipelago, the local authority responded with a campaign of attractiveness tinged with irony.
Entitled “Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 146 days of rain, 365 days of happiness”, this initiative praises the merits of local life, highlighting “a territory in full employment, strong security, exceptional nature and a peaceful living environment”.
Two “bad buzz” in two weeks
Playing on the acronym OQTF, the community proposes to reinterpret it positively: “we leave very easily” to live in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, “we come in search of family tranquility”, or even “qualified workers to work in the cold”. “Sending someone here to punish him is like exile a painter in the light, a poet in silence, a lover in beauty,” said the press release accompanying this campaign, which invites you to discover the archipelago not as a land of exile, but as a place of rebirth.
“Our territory underwent two” bad buzz “in two weeks: we first had the customs duties of Donald Trump, then Laurent Wauquiez. So we thought that we had to get out of all this negative communication to enhance our territory, to make it known, “explained the entourage of the president of the territorial council Bernard Briand. “Here, everything is nearby, insecurity does not exist, nature is 200 meters away and the pace of life is quite Canadian”. The community of 6,000 inhabitants highlights a quality of life conducive to “slow life”. A dedicated website (Vivre-a-spm.fr) supports this attractiveness strategy.
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Laurent Wauquiez had proposed, in an interview with JDNews“To lock up” in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon the dangerous people under the obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) refusing to return to their country. “It is 5 degrees on average during the year, 146 days of rain and snow. I think that quickly, it will lead everyone to think, “he said, causing an uproar and arousing reactions even in the ranks of his own political family.
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