A meeting worthy of a romantic comedy.
On December 13, 2022, at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, Marlène Schiappa stops on a man: Matthias Savignac, president of the Mutuelle générale de l'Éducation nationale (MGEN).
"They have known each other for barely a few hours, but the looks they exchange are already heavy with complicity," reads the pages of the latest issue of
Paris Match
, on newsstands this Friday.
The Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life was then passing through New York (a city that she particularly likes and where she moreover spent two months, alone, in 2022, during his brief absence from the government) to defend a project at the UN.
It is a question of labeling internationally the principles of another form of entrepreneurship.
To do this, Marlène Schiappa did not come alone;
it is armed with a French delegation made up of leaders of cooperatives, associations and foundations.
Matthias Savignac, "athletic look, tattoos that go beyond shirt cuffs", we read in
Paris Match
, is one of them...
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A Twitter post, a WhatsApp message
Not very fond of social networks, Matthias Savignac posted on December 13 on Twitter a video extract of his visit to the UN.
Without forgetting to tag the minister, who comments on the publication with “applause” emojis.
Things could very well have ended there.
But as soon as he returns to France, he sends a personal message to Marlène Schiappa to thank her, reports the magazine.
The rest of the story remains confidential.
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"It was obvious"
Married since 2006 to Cédric Bruguière - human resources consultant, essayist -, Marlène Schiappa confides this week in the columns of
Paris Match
: "It was obvious, it was immediate."
An impromptu, unexpected love at first sight.
At the latest news, the politician was still in a relationship with the father of her two daughters, from whom she had separated some time several years ago.
Today, despite her idyll with Matthias Savignac, the politician hammers it: her attachment to her husband, met when she was only 19 (and she was already married), “will remain intact”.
“Our story, with Matthias, is banal, millions of people are going through it,” she says.
But because "everyone has a point of view on the private lives of public people", she prefers to take the lead.
To avoid possible scandals or paparazzades displayed one of the tabloids.
To keep control, control your image too.
To protect the government and Emmanuel Macron, finally.
Some will judge that it is too fast: too bad
Marlene Schiappa
As Secretary of State, Marlène Schiappa is indeed subject to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) to which any change in marital status must be reported.
In order to avoid any conflict of interest, the most faithful of the macronists will no longer deal with the MGEN file.
It is Elisabeth Borne who should now take it over.
Matthias Savignac, he had to give up his next trips to the UN as part of the famous project which pushed him on the path of the minister.
“Some will judge that it is too fast: too bad, assumes Marlène Schiappa.
Anyway, to do things properly, we have no choice but to do them quickly.