Christine Lagarde reacted Thursday to the rumor that has been infusing since the start of the campaign: her appointment as Prime Minister if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected.
Who will succeed Jean Castex if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected? The hypothesis of an appointment of Christine Lagarde at Matignon infused during the campaign. Last February, Paris Match echoed it, stressing that it was “a real banana peel slipped under the feet of Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate”, who then crossed a false flat. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy would have suggested the idea to Emmanuel Macron, said “Les Echos” at the start of the year and the rumor has not abated since.
Thursday the president of the European Central Bank, installed since the fall of 2019 in Frankfurt, was questioned on the subject. “I’m losing my voice,” she answered the question about this rumor asked during the traditional press conference following the meeting of the ECB’s Governing Council.
“I have a job, I have a job,” said Nicolas Sarkozy’s former minister in January at the microphone of France Inter to silence this rumor about his future. She, whose mandate at the ECB is scheduled to end in 2027, “does not have the habit of giving up along the way”, she added. Christine Lagarde was all the more concerned about her voice on Thursday as she recently tested positive for Covid-19, says AFP. This forced her to participate exceptionally from her home in the press conference in virtual mode, as explained in the preamble by Wolfgang Proissl, head of communication for the institute.