This Thursday, March 30, France 2 is broadcasting an issue of Complément d’Enquête devoted to Alexis Kohler. Present with Emmanuel Macron since May 2017, he is one of his most powerful relatives … with Brigitte Macron.
It is a relationship that questions, even annoys, to the very heart of power. Since his election to the Élysée in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has been particularly close to one man: Alexis Kohler. Secretary General of the Presidential Palace since the President of the Republic acceded to it, he is often described as the “twin” by Emmanuel Macron. This Thursday, March 30, France 2 is also offering a Complément d’Enquête issue which is devoted to this “man in the shadow of the President”. “As of 2017, Alexis Kohler has been an extremely powerful secretary general of the Élysée, recalled Thomas Lelong, the director of the documentary, on the set of C à vous. He takes that from his relationship with Emmanuel Macron. (…) There, we have a very fusional relationship.
The relatives of Emmanuel Macron are also very clear about the relationship between the two men. “There are two people, there is Alexis Kohler and there is Brigitte Macron“says one of them before Gabriel Attal adds: “It’s still the one who knows the President best, the one who sees him the most, the one who is also sometimes able to decode him”. But other people don’t like this closeness at all… “Kohler is the caricature of the technocrat, confides in particular an influential boss close to Emmanuel Macron in this report. Macron made a serious mistake by letting him extend his hold on politics.” Others accuse him of having “empty the President” and to have it “isolated to better lock it”.
Emmanuel Macron has “confidence in him”
“On a number of subjects, he is more powerful than the other members of his team. At the same time, he is a pure product of high school, he knows the workings of the state, he knows how it works. C He is a senior civil servant, he has never been elected, we are talking about someone who has never been confronted with universal suffrage”, summed up Thomas Lelong on Sud Radio. Indicted for “illegal taking of interests” and placed under the status of assisted witness for “influence peddling”, Alexis Kohler has retained the confidence of Emmanuel Macron. Asked by Complément d’Enquête on the sidelines of the Agricultural Show, the President of the Republic defended “honesty” by Alexis Kohler “super committed, super competent” : “I have no reason not to give him my confidence (…). Really, I have confidence in him”.