We could judge him cold, but how do you know when speech is so rare?
Jean-Michel Macron, Emmanuel Macron's father, gave a rare interview to our colleagues from the Ebra group (L'Alsace, le Républicain lorrain).
In Amiens (Somme), where the neurologist still lives, he confides with great restraint "the admiration" he has for his son.
“I approve of 90% of what he does,” he says, “I have a lot of admiration for the way he is running the state now.
I find that you have to have a lot of courage and that the French are very ungrateful, but that's nothing new,” he said.
“He had a lot of merit in facing up to everything that fell on his head, in particular the Covid.
Faced with the war in Ukraine, he had a lot of courage.
There are not many European leaders who have done what he has done,”
For the second round, "we'll see", yes, the result may be tight because "it's not like five years ago", but political analysis, Macron father does not deliver any, no more than he does not criticize France's view of his son's adversary.
He just suggests that his son's entourage has not yet "planned anything" in the event of victory, unlike the very elaborate staging at the Louvre, which had caused so much talk in 2017.
“The last time he came here was November 21, 2019”
The two men rarely see each other, according to the father.
“I go to see him from time to time, but not often.
I was at his meeting at La Défense Arena in Nanterre on April 2.
Him, you see his schedule… The last time he kindly came to see me here in the house where he grew up was on November 21, 2019, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new faculty of sciences of Amiens”.
This city of Amiens, the journalist Anne Fulda had affirmed in her book "A young man so perfect", published in 2017, that Emmanuel Macron had fled it at the age of 17 to escape his love affair with Brigitte Trogneux, then aged 39, one of her teachers at the "Prov".
When writing this book, Jean-Michel Macron opened his door to Anne Fulda, agreeing to answer him.
"These are stories and children's tales," he castigates today.
From the beginning, Emmanuel had to go to his final year in Paris at the Lycée Henri-IV to enter the preparatory class more easily.
Nothing has been changed.
It wasn't to run away from his current wife.
This journalist whose name I don't want to remember and who annoys me deeply has written false things”.
The Figaro journalist had written that "Emmanuel's parents, all the same a little shaken" by this unusual love story, "decided to meet Brigitte and ask her not to see their son again until his majority .
"I can't promise you anything," Brigitte then replies, in tears," according to Anne Fulda's story.
By living his love story totally, “Emmanuel showed that he was free.
He assumed.
Simply it was perhaps early “, judge today the father, who says he has” good relations “with his daughter-in-law.
And to conclude: “It’s okay, we’re talking to each other.
We don't hit each other.
There is no problem.
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