Emmanuel Macron too obstinate? His friend Philippe Besson confides in this fault of the President: Current Woman The MAG

Philippe Besson has been close to the President for years. For the presidential campaign, he had obtained the right to join his close team. A closeness that offered him a multitude of crisp anecdotes to tell in his book published in September 2017, A character from a novel, intimate portrait dedicated to the conquest of the Elysee Palace by Emmanuel Macron. Guest on Anne Roumanoff's show, It feels good, broadcast on Europe 1 Wednesday February 3, 2021, the writer is very critical of his own book. "I knew him before he launched into the presidential campaign", he recalls. “We had become friends over dinner with mutual friends three or four years before. This is someone I dated. When he started the presidential campaign, I was very surprised because, frankly, I thought he had no chance of winning. When he told me about it, I told him ‘But this is silly! Why ?' In the end, he won […] In the end it gives a quack and wobbly book: I'm not a journalist, I looked at it with a form of assumed subjectivity but also without distance, in a certain way, so I didn't am not sure the book is very successful. ”

"Emmanuel, we can tell him anything but that doesn't change his mind very little"

Since then, Philippe Besson has managed to take the distance he needed to judge the actions of his friend as President. "I look at this warrant from a distance, but it was already the case before", says the writer. “We are friends, but I had political differences and differences with him already before. I am on the left! He was supposed to be right and left, he revealed himself to be right and right, though. So there is a distance that has been created. But basically the poor have to deal with an impressive number of difficulties … ” Thus, Philippe Besson does not hesitate to knock on the door of the Head of State to point out to him what he considers to be errors, such as the closure of places of culture during the coronavirus pandemic. "Emmanuel, we can tell him anything but that doesn't change his mind very little", insists Philippe Besson, emphasizing his "obstinacy." The writer then details: You can tell him anything, he listens, does not take offense, does not take offense, but we are not quite sure that he hears, that he takes it into account. I would even say we're pretty sure he can't hear. " Emmanuel Macron will appreciate.

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