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La politique

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politics (indénombrable)

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Une politique

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a policy

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Un régime autoritaire

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an authoritarian regime

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renverser

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to bring down / overthrow a regime

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un décideur

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a policy maker / a decision maker

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un élu

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an office holder

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le candidat sortant

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an incumbent

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Les pouvoir publics locaux

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Local authorities

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L’équilibre entre les pouvoirs

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the balance of powers / checks and balances

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Les deux chambres aux USA

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Congress

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Les deux chambres au RU

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Parliament

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Le travail parlementaire

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lawmaking

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faire une proposition de loi

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to introduce/ present a bill

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Faire voter une loi

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to pass a bill through parliament

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rejeter une proposition de loi

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to defeat a bill

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voter une loi

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to pass a law

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promulguer une loi

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to enact a law

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appliquer une loi

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to enforce a law

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un membre du gouvernement

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a government ember/ a cabinet member (UK)

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un ministère

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a ministry / a department / an office

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Mettre en oeuvre une politique

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to implement a policy

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Restructurer, réorganiser

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to reshape

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Un remaniement ministériel

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a cabinet reshuffle

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dépasser les oppositions droite-gauche

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to cut across the left-right divide

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trouver un accord entre partis opposés

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to reach a bipartisan agreement

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sur l’ensemble de l’échiquier politique

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across the political spectrum

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Parvenir à/ négocier un accord

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to work out / to hammer out an agreement

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arriver aux ‘affaires’

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to come to power

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prendre la succession de

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to taker over (from sb)

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être en fonction

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to be in office

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prendre ses fonctions

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to take office

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un mandat électoral

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a term of office

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quitter le pouvoir

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to leave power / to step down

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Réaliser un sondage

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ton conduct an opinion poll

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enquête d’opinion

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an opinion survey

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personne interrogée

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a respondent

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être à la traine dans les sondages

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to trail / lag in polls

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s’effondrer dans les sondages

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to slump in the polls

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39
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indice de satisfaction

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approval ratings

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Elections législatives

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a general election

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Election partielle

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a by-election

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se présenter à une élection

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to run for office

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un maire

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a mayor

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conseil municipal

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town council

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élection à deux tours

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a two-round system

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circonscription électorale

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a ward / constituency

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un électeur

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a voter / a constituent

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L’âge de vote

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the voting age

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participation électorale

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electoral / poll turnout

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organiser une élection

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to hold elections

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élections truquées

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rigged elections (to rig)

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bureau de vote

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a polling station

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isoloir

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a polling booth

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voter

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to cast a ballot

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faire campagne

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to campaign

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lever des fonds

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to raise money / funds

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soutenir financièrement

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to contribute to someone’s campaign

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se créer / entretenir une image

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to build / cultivate an image

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profiter de sa popularité pour

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to capitalize one’s popularity to///

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avoir / manquer de charisme

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to have / lack charisma

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montrer l’exemple

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to set an exemple

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répondre aux attentes de l’opinion

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to come/ live up to the public’s expectations

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décevoir l’opinion publique

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to fall short of the public expectation’s

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tenir ses promesses

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to keep one’s / to deliver on one’s campaign policy

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gagner, avoir de l’influence

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to gain / wield influence

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un revirement de l’électorat à gauche ou droite

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a swing to the right/left

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Etat qui peut faire basculer l’élection (USA)

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a swing state

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une victoire écrasante

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a landslide victory

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ternir son image

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to tarnish one’s image

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perdre l’estime du public

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to lose public esteem

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un militant / militantisme

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an activist /activism

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adhérer

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to join a party

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une position

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a stand / a stance

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prendre une position sur

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to assume a stance on

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prendre position

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to take a sand on an issue

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faire marche-arrière

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to back-pedal

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faire volte-face

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make a turnaround / a turnabout

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prendre parti pour

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to take sides with / to side with

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changer de bord

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to switch sides

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appliquer son programme

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to carry through one’s program

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être engagé à faire qqch

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to be committed to doing sth

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subir un sévère échec, revers

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to suffer a major setback

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préconiser

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to advocate sth

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adopter (une idée, une politique)

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to endorse sth

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se faire le porte-parole d’une politique

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to champion a policy

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soutenir une politique

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to back / support a policy

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une question délicate

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a prickly / thorny issue / a polemical subject, a controversy

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délicat, compliqué

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intricate

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un problème très discuté

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a hotly debated issue

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s’attaquer à un problème

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to tackle an issue

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éluder / se dérober à un problème

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to dodge / evade an issue

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s’opposer à

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to object to (ing)

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se chamailler

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to squabble about

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aboutir à une impasse

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to come to a deadlock

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s’allier

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to ally with / to make an alliance with / to form a coalition government

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les électeurs

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the constituents

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les députés votent selon le parti au pouvoir quelle que soit leur opinion

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members of parliament vote along party lines whatever their opinion might be (uk)

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les raisons du blocage politique aux EU

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A system of check and balances
The Senate’s Rule
The Senate’s composition (regardless of population)
The polarisation of the political parties over the past 20 years
The system of campaign financing (lobby + supreme court ok)

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jugement, décision (politique)

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a ruling

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coincider

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to overlap

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the Senate’s Rule XXII (1917)

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The minority is in a position to prevent the majority from passing legislation (= 60/100 senators have to give their assent)

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céder aux caprices, flatter

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to pander to

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mettre en location

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to let a flat

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un locataire

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a tenant

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