“It was very, very hot in Marseille, as you saw…”, he joked on the set of “C à Vous”.
Emmanuel Macron indeed reacted in the emission of France 5, Monday, April 18, to the snapshot taken two days earlier by his official photographer, Soazig de la Moissonnière.
The President of the Republic appears there seated on a sofa, wearing a white shirt open over his hairy chest.
The post, “liked” by more than 22,500 people, has since gone around the web.
If the Head of State confirmed that he had validated the series of photographs in which this shot slipped, he nevertheless admitted that this image in particular had undoubtedly “passed a little quickly” before his eyes.
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A snapshot that did not fail to react to Internet users.
"A president like we've never seen!" Commented one of them under the post.
"Really it makes me uneasy all those who make fun of Emmanuel Macron's chest!", joked @VarlanOlivier on Twitter.
If some were quick to shout at the “failed com” in the face of this apparent relaxation, others flew to the rescue of the LREM candidate.
“Well, on the other hand, are you surprised that Emmanuel Macron can have hair?
got annoyed @AlexisLeDandy.
Is this the first time you've seen a shirtless grown man?"
Some Internet users have, for their part, castigated what they perceive as a sterile debate.
“You have been debating the hairiness of Emmanuel Macron's chest for 24 hours and then you are surprised that the French find this campaign useless,” wrote one of them.
This is not the first time that a relaxed snapshot of the president has created a sensation.
In March, the latter appeared bearded and wearing a hooded sweatshirt in another photograph by Soazig de la Moissonnière.
