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Officially, Brigitte Macron does not engage in politics…
Coincidentally, Brigitte Macron sets her own agenda. A very valuable political asset to her husband, the “First Lady” also enjoys doing it herself. She stop shaking.
A good old political method. Light a backfire to divert attention. In this week of presentation of the pension reform, Emmanuel issued the Brigitte card. One way to prevent the media agenda from being saturated by the debate on pensions. On the evening of Monday 9 January, the day before the presentation of the reform, the “First lady” is a guest at 8 pm on TF1. Operation Yellow Pieces. Great classic from the time of Bernadette Chirac.
Far from being a green plant
An opportunity to slip in some confessions about your husband. Scoop for those who haven’t seen the interview: she agrees with him. While we’re at it, why not say a few words about pensions? “Everything is done so that you have a pension,” she says reassuringly to the younger one. Too bad if the day after, on the microphone of RMC, Clementine Auten, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, is outraged by a mixture of genres: “We can clearly see that on the eve of a big meeting, what is the terrible announcement of this reform by the government, he comes sympathetically to send a message taking advantage of his notoriety and his place. What does the First Lady do on TV? I find it very curious. You look like a vice president.
Vice president? That’s still an understatement. In public, Brigitte Macron almost plays the lady protector. Like the big bourgeois of yesteryear, she sticks to charitable activities. Like: “Oh I, you know, politics…”. A false modesty that borders on the language of wood. Privately, everyone knows that the avenues of power pass through her. Emmanuel Macron, an ultimately solitary spirit (“I have no friends” he declared, in 2018, to Jean-Jacques Bourdin and Edwy Plenel) remains an impenetrable mystery for his collaborators. Everyone will have noticed that he often tends to change his mind… “Whoever speaks last to him is right” says an almost disillusioned adviser. Brigitte Macron has the undoubted advantage of being the last to speak to him almost every evening.
The Lady’s Wing
At the Palace, no one is wrong. There is a kind of triangle: the president sits at the top. On the sides, the two closest to him: Alexis Kohler and Brigitte. Last spring, after his re-election, Emmanuel Macron took a long time to appoint a prime minister. Kohler defends Elisabeth Borne, Brigitte prefers Catherine Vautrin, the president of Grande Reims. Emmanuel Macron will go so far as to offer the place to the second, before changing his mind at the last moment. In government, the wife of the Head of State can always count on solid relays. Although her favorites Jean-Michel Blanquer and Roselyne Bachelot are gone, Éric Dupond-Moretti remains. She recently fell in love with Pap N’Diaye.
To the readers of Parisian, he bluntly declares, in the January 12 edition: “I recommend doing a little dictation every day.” Mrs. Macron also wants to ban cell phones in high school and she says she is in favor of school uniforms: “but with a simple and not sad outfit …”. Support for Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a RN deputy who has indeed presented a bill to that effect?
And what will her husband do after 2027? “There is life after the Elysée, but it will be very difficult. Because the Elysée is a continuous adrenaline rush. Frankly, since 2017 I haven’t seen him log off even for half a day. I wish he would log out every now and then but he doesn’t know how to do it. So how will he do after 2027?…. “. And who will succeed him? ” Oh there there ! Oh I don’t know! “.
The crazy adventures of Brigitte Macron
This meeting with the readers of the Parisian it is decidedly full of anecdotes. Thus we learn that Nemo, the presidential dog, refuses to go out into the garden without being accompanied by his mistress. Every day, Brigitte Macron prepares her husband a substantial breakfast: “I prepare him two oranges with a lemon. She makes him moan every morning but I also add a kiwi to him. And squeeze a lemon into his tea. And then he gets cereal with cottage cheese. He eats little in the morning. Unlike me who needs bread and cheese otherwise I can’t. He also looks at the recipes on the Marmiton site for inspiration.
Brigitte Macron admits that she writes her diary every night, conscientiously. “I don’t want anyone to fall on it. I don’t destroy everything, but a lot. It’s spread out like a jigsaw puzzle, so it can’t be found: my concern is for people to read me. Everyone has their little secrets.
The prying eyes of ERB
Terminal: please stay on the quay • When Emmanuel Macron learned that his prime minister was planning to spend the Christmas holidays aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to express his support for the military, he immediately asked for the trip to be cancelled. Out of the question that ” the first ” walks on its Elysian flowerbeds… Information revealed by Point.
Marlène Schiappa reached a tweet from 2015 • “After 50 years we no longer hire you but Medef 
wants you to retire at 67… What have you been doing for 17 years? “. In 2015, Marlène Schiappa, then close to the Socialist Party, shared a tweet expressing her refusal to raise the retirement age. Today, she is a minister in a government that is preparing to raise the retirement age to 64. How time passes.