“Burn everything!” » In 2017, throughout his first presidential marketing campaign, between two conferences and appointments, Emmanuel Macron typically handed his bodyguard cardboard folders and, for the pink ones, informed him to take away their contents. Alexandre Benalla, who then watched over the candidate’s safety, remembers it nicely: he himself threw the sheets of paper right into a metallic drum, within the basement of the marketing campaign HQ, rue de l’Abbé-Groult, within the 15e district of Paris, and set it on hearth. Sometimes a makeshift brazier was lit by the facet of the highway, on the best way to an airport the place the long run president was taking off to affix a public assembly. Inside, notes, scribbled concepts, numerous marketing campaign paperwork… Emmanuel Macron was not but elected and secrecy was already an obsession.
“Hypercompartmentalized”, “superparanoid”, “enigmatic”…This is how its very shut collaborators describe the President of the Republic immediately. This is the lot of heads of state. But mistrust and warning are reflexes that Emmanuel Macron realized very early. Part of his adolescence and twenties was spent in a type of clandestinity. “Fifteen years (…) to be widely misunderstood »he told the journalist at Figaro Anne Fulda in Emmanuel Macron, such a perfect young man (Plon, 2017), the book she dedicated to him. Because Brigitte Trogneux was twenty-four years his senior, he spent years hiding to others their love story. “Emmanuel needs everyone and no onesummarized Brigitte Macron one day in front of her husband’s biographer. We never enter its perimeter. » From Amiens, the president has retained a certain habit of solitude and compartmentalization.
Emmanuel Macron works in silos. With telephone messaging “loops”, solely he is aware of who he’s speaking to at evening, since this insomniac usually works till 2 a.m., his Telegram account exhibits. “We have to think”, “How do you see things? »he wrote on WhatsApp to its small communities of former ministers, friends, elected officials, prefects, mayors met while traveling, or, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, of doctors, in messages including The World had knowledge. But also ” I miss you “, “I’m proud of you”, “You hurt me”, “Family is you”or, earlier than the political ruptures, “Our roads separate”. He, often so impenetrable, is usually imprudent in his written messages (requested a number of instances in latest weeks by the Elysée companies but in addition by private mail, Emmanuel Macron didn’t reply).
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