The wife of the Head of State has come out of his reserve to plead the wearing of the uniform at school and make the mesh of a supposed “silent majority”. An attitude that embarrasses and divides into the presidential camp.
by Ivanne Trippenbach and Claire Gatinois
There had not really been a tomorrow to this March 8, 2017. “Come with me! Yes,” said candidate Emmanuel Macron by inviting his wife to go on stage, at the Antoine theater, during One of his last meetings in Paris. Brigitte Macron had joined him, hesitant. At the time, the future president intended to give an official role to the one who accompanies him, in life as in the exercise of power. “Compared by the Republic, no. Having a role, a real status, a real ability to do, yes,” he assured, in the footsteps of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who had, the first, assigned his wife Anne -Aymone an unprecedented role under the V e Republic, going so far as to give him the floor during the French for 1975. Emmanuel Macron had, finally, gave up creating this particular, too unpopular status.
“I wore the uniform as a student”
In 2023, Brigitte Macron still has no status. But she has an opinion. Opinions on the topical subjects that she likes to share. “She doesn’t want to be a potiche,” said the Elysée. In an interview published Thursday, January 12, in Le Parisien, The wife of the Head of State is expressed So on the occasion of the operation “yellow pieces” which she sponsors and takes advantage of it to approach political files against a dozen readers. About the school, one of the priorities of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, the first lady does not hesitate to appear “for” the wearing of the uniform. “I wore the uniform as a student, fifteen years of navy blue skirt, navy blue sweater. I lived it well,” she said, pleading for “a simple and not sad outfit”.
Six days earlier, the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, had however been categorical towards one of the totems brandished by the reactionary right which honors him, explaining not to want to “open this debate”. “I do not want a law on this subject. Imposing the uniform on all students is no,” he swept on BFMTV on January 4, while adding that an establishment could establish it locally.
“It’s not calculated”
“Any interference is never pleasant”, we confide in the entourage of Pap Ndiaye. Discreet, little media, the minister is distinguished from his predecessor, Jean-Michel Blanquer, a former conservative rector, whom the president’s wife particularly appreciated. Brigitte Macron would she try to guide the novice in politics? “Brigitte has her convictions, from the start, we minimize the cabinet of rue de Grenelle. She replied spontaneously. Emmanuel Macron does not send her to service ordered to disavow her own minister. And Minister N ‘does not have to ask for the advice of the First Lady, who has no status in our Republic, to know that it is necessary to seize a subject “questioned, the team of the head of state n ‘did not want to express themselves. “It is not calculated, she did not go to war against PAP, she is not in command of the President of the Republic,” we defend in the entourage of Brigitte Macron.
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