It is necessary to measure, behind the smiling tone, the extreme violence of the formula used by François Hollande.
Evoking, on the Twitch platform, the proximity that Emmanuel Macron has been showing since 2017 with Nicolas Sarkozy, the cowardly former socialist president: “It is undoubtedly easier to consult his distant predecessor than his former employer.
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François Hollande is known to choose his words with precision.
In this case, a vocabulary that demeans the other while affirming a superiority of oneself.
So why ?
Hollande, who is not very emotional in political life, had made an exception for his young deputy secretary general at the Elysee Palace.
He had struck up a friendship with him.
Some even tell of a quasi-subsidiary relationship!
This is why the socialist has never forgiven what he experienced as a betrayal in 2016.
This also allows us to understand another sentence pronounced on Twitch: “My greatest regret is not having represented myself (…) This decision, I took it too early.
»Subtitle: If I had been a candidate, I would have beaten Macron!
If ... Let's face it, in a few years we have gone from affection to hate.
In our columns last Sunday, Hollande urged Macron to publicly recall the principle of judicial independence after the attacks against the national financial prosecutor's office.
The current president did not (unsurprisingly) comply with the injunction.
But, did he signal to his former "employer" about it?
Was there an exchange, an explanation of the text?
" No.
Nothing, ”the two men's offices answer in chorus.
Between them, the line is cut.
This is often the way it is when an affair is… personal.