“…On the other hand, a political speech act may be accorded a sense of relative authority, notably in a period of partisan consensus, which contributes towards establishing (or on the contrary to refuting) the historical value of a social phenomenon. Like journalists, political leaders carry out ‘a work of definition centring on the nature of the reported action, on the identity of the actors concerned, on the establishment of a narrative and finally on the calculation of the place of each society vis-à-vis this narrative’ (Dayan, 2006: 7). 55 It is a question of political speakers assigning meaning to the event by attributing it with intentionality, as without this, the event does not signify anything.…”