“Noooo? OK… !” : Rachida Dati minister, Anna Mouglalis stunned by the announcement

An announcement that created a surprise. Two days after his appointment as head of Matignon, Gabriel Attal unveiled the list of members of his government this Thursday, January 11. Rachida Dati won the post of Minister of Culture and thus succeeds Rima Abdul Malak. Upon learning of this nomination, Anna Mouglalis could not hide her amazement at Paul Larrouturou’s microphone. “Noooo?”she reacted, somewhat stunned by this news, on a video published on the journalist’s X account. Faced with the actress’s amazement, the political reporter assured her that it was not a joke. “I guarantee it. I just found out about it just now.”he told her.

After rolling her eyes and searching for words, the former muse of the Chanel house was content to release a “OK…!” Faced with this laconic response, Paul Larrouturou wanted to know what the return of the former Minister of Justice within Gabriel Attal’s government inspired in him. As an answer, the 45-year-old director portrayed the current state of the world of culture. “In any case, the culture was very well destroyed. But culture is alive and its function is also to resist.”, she first declared. And to continue: “Anyway, there’s nothing going on here. It’s a cultural revolution (referring to to the #MeToo movement in the world of cinema, editor’s note). Because there are new discourses emerging which are not discourses of the dominant who want to get rid of domination. And that, whoever the Minister of Culture is, he knows that it will be there”. The message has gotten through.

Rachida Dati minister, the reaction of her rival Anne Hidalgo was not long in coming

Shortly after the appointment of Rachida Dati, Anne Hidalgo was quick to express her thoughts. “I wish good luck to those in the world of culture given the trials they will go through”, she declared, as revealed by political journalist Pierre Lepelletier on his account X, formerly Twitter. A reaction which is no exception to the multiple skirmishes between the mayor of Paris and her right-wing rival.

At each Paris council, the two female politicians do not give each other any favors and multiply the little barbs. When Rachida Dati came to the set of Dailyon February 10, Yann Barthès wanted to know more about his relationship with the mayor of Paris. “Is it cinema or not? Do you like each other or not?” To which the former magistrate was quick to respond: “No but whatwe face each other… More than once I say to myself: ‘Okay, that’s it, that’s it, let’s stay with that…’ […] I try to hold back but then they look for me…”, she declared. And to continue: “No but I’ll tell you, we had a friendly relationship…. (…) No but the relationship is healthy… a little brutal… but healthy!“ Things are said.

Photo credits: Screen capture: X / Paul Larrouturou