A frequent commentator on economic and sometimes political news on radio and television, Michel-Édouard Leclerc had until now never expressed the desire to become a leading actor. It was done this Thursday, March 28.
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Invited on the LCI set at a time when the public accounts are in the red, the president of the centers E.Leclerc presented his own conception of the debt.
“If the debt is well invested, well managed, it is good for growth
,” he said. Which earned him a joke from journalist Jean-Baptiste Boursier:
“Are you a candidate for Bercy or not, then?”
Allusive response from the person concerned:
“I am not yet a candidate for Bercy. I think about it when I shave.”
A nod to the famous phrase uttered by Nicolas Sarkozy in the show “100 minutes to convince” in 2003. While Alain Duhamel asks him if he ever thinks about the presidential election in the morning when he shaves, the one who was then Minister of the Interior under Jacques Chirac responds with a smile:
“Not only when I shave.”
“I’m not excluding anything”
If he has not yet hinted at presidential ambitions, for the first time the boss of the number one major retail brand has revealed that he
“thinks all the time”
about getting involved in politics.
“I am so sad to see the level of debate sometimes in the National Assembly
,” he explained to justify his new political appetite. Before setting out his framework of thought more clearly:
“Without Europe we are shit, even if Europe is techno, even if Europe is far from us, we have to put that straight. (...) The European elections should not be held solely in revenge for French domestic politics.”
“European”
,
“regionalist”
,
“Breton”
and
“private entrepreneur”,
Michel-Édouard Leclerc
“wants to be socially useful”.
To do this, it
“excludes nothing”
.
“There are plenty of politicians who say that
,” he cracked with a smile. Coming
from “a social democratic background”
, could Leclerc's boss join the list of Raphaël Glucksmann, Place Publique candidate and the Socialist Party for the European elections?
“I look at everyone
,” he dodges. While emphasizing his points of convergence with the left-wing MEP:
“We need a market. I also believe in regulation but I believe in the primacy of the social project and the political project.”