The Pink City has therefore not finished with the Baudis. At just 34 years old, Pierre Baudis is running in the first constituency of Haute-Garonne, for the presidential majority. His father, Dominique Baudis (1947-2014), was elected mayor of Toulouse three times from 1983 to 2001, succeeding his own father at the age of 35, and was a deputy twice. His homonymous grandfather Pierre Baudis (1916-1997) sat in the National Assembly for twenty years and ended seventy years of socialist mayors on Capitol Hill by being elected under the centrist label in 1971 and 1977.

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The last of the Baudis does not want to hear about a dynasty for all that. “Universal suffrage is not passed on, but I am proud of my parents’ heritage”, he said. Like his father, he was a journalist, going from Figaro at TF1 and Direct 8. He then set up his social network consulting agency and works for the start-up Trezy, which publishes a management application. Why get involved in politics? “I was fed up…