The Culture and Media Councilor of Emmanuel Macron since 2019 is out of the shadows and succeeds Roselyne Bachelot rue de Valois. In particular, it will have to manage the removal of the audiovisual fee.
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On May 7, during the inauguration ceremony of Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée, we saw that she, or almost. Roselyne Bachelot, faithful to her taste for colored clothes, sported an inevitable apple green tailor and displayed a jovial smile. The ace. At 75, the third Minister of Culture (after François Nyssen and Franck Riester) of the first five-year term Macron, who would have imagined continuing his function on rue de Valois, gives way to Rima Abdul-Malak. The two women know each other well since the second was, since December 2019, the influential Culture and Media Councilor of Emmanuel Macron. Very aware of the files in progress and accustomed to appointments, Rima Abdul-Malak is unknown to the general public but not from the cultural environment.
Sarkozyst Roselyne Bachelot will only have stayed in post twenty-two months. It’s little but usual for this ministry. In barely thirty years, the function of Minister of Culture will have been occupied by no less than fifteen personalities, tenants of rue de Valois for an average duration of barely two years. Will Rima Abdul-Malak manage to mark his passage to a position in lack of incarnation from Jacques Lang, that is since 1993? This 44-year-old Franco-Lebanese, who spent the first ten years of her life in Lebanon before arriving in Lyon with her family, had already been expected in the summer of 2020 to succeed Franck Riester. But the President of the Republic had finally preferred the “media” Roselyne Bachelot rather than the “technocratic” profile of the former culture councilor of the socialist Bertrand Delanoë at the town hall of Paris.
It was at the Parisian town hall that Rima Abdul-Malak began her political career. After having directed the humanitarian association Clowns Sans Frontières, which organized children’s shows in war areas, this graduate of the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Lyon, also holder of Development and International Cooperation of The Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, was appointed in 2007 at the head of the current music pole of the French Institute. A year later, she entered the town hall of Paris as a live performance counselor and then became chief of staff to Christophe Girard, culture assistant to the mayor of Paris before joining the cabinet of Bertrand Delanoë. At the end of the latter’s second term, in 2014, Rima Abdul-Malak went to the French Embassy in New York as cultural attaché. And it was in 2019 that she succeeded Claudia Ferrazzi as Culture and Communication Advisor of the Elysée.
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