Jocelyne Guillemin, the Super Mamie Haute-Marne, is a candidate in the national election, this Sunday 1is December, in Nice. Internet users will be able to vote on the Facebook page live. Haut-Marnais, be chauvinistic!
On the road that takes her to Nice, Jocelyne Guillemin answers the call with a light, perky tone. “Cool Raoul”, as she says. This Sunday, December 1, she will represent Haute-Marne in the election of Super Mamie France, in Nice. A month and a half after her departmental coronation, in the premises of the Departmental Council, the sixty-year-old from Bayard-sur-Marne has not come down from her little cloud. “It’s just happiness. I am fully into this adventure. You only experience this kind of thing once in a lifetime! “, she says.
In total, on Sunday, ten Super Grannies will be candidates. Jocelyne Guillemin will wear number 5. “Vote 5, vote grandma Jo!” », Exclaim her six grandchildren in the promotional video that she had to provide to the organizing committee. Here again, Haut-Marnaise has taken its role very seriously. For the 1'30 of images, edited by her granddaughter Emma, she went to Lac du Der in turn – “we reshot the shot 20 times! » – at the Château de Joinville – “which was closed and which the director himself opened for me for the occasion” – as well as at the Mémorial de Gaulle, in Colombey, in front of the general's DS.
An offbeat presentation, designed with a lot of humor, which she hopes will convince the greatest number of Internet users to vote for her. Because yes, everyone will be able to vote via the “Super Mamie Committee” Facebook page, where the event will be broadcast live, this Sunday, from 2:30 p.m. “My loved ones will watch, my friends too. And I hope, all Haut-Marnais! “, she continues.
Granny singer, granny dancer
Showing up in Nice has never been a subject of debate. When her election as Super Mamie Haute-Marne was announced on October 13, Jocelyne Guillemin immediately booked her weekend. “Philou”, her husband, who had given of himself on stage in Chaumont, obviously accompanies her, as does her daughter Emilie, based in Lyon, and her granddaughter Emma, 20 years old, a student in Toulouse. “I have no right to know anything. What awaits me is top secret. If the slightest detail is revealed to me, I am disqualified.”
The Haut-Marnaise does not intend to take the slightest risk, but her daughter Emilie, who orchestrated a certain number of surprises on D-day, is in all confidences. “I just know that I have a challenge to take on and I have worked a lot for it,” notes Jocelyne Guillemin.
Singer of several choirs, it is ultimately not this art that Haut-Marnaise will devote herself to on stage. As in Chaumont, she and her daughter decided to embark on a 1'30 Charleston, in outfits. “My daughter filmed herself, I watched the video every day to be on top of the choreography,” she confides. At 69 years old, Jocelyne Guillemin has left nothing to chance. Princess, her cat, has found a cozy nest to wait in her absence, auntie Jeannine has reserved her afternoon to follow the competition on social networks. Everything is ready!
Delphine Catalifaud
