“I think my name has been passed around.” During the government reshuffle at the start of 2024, rumors in the corridors mentioned the name of the journalist Claire Chazal for the post of Minister of Culture, before it was awarded to Rachida Dati.
Guest of the show What an era! on France 2, this Saturday April 27, the former TF1 presenter said she would have accepted the proposal.
“I’m not going to pretend, it’s absurd. I always said that I was very interested in it and I would have liked to do it“, she explained. The journalist indicated that she had positioned herself in this sense: “I said it in conversations with people who were supposed to decide and then, after that, I never applied again. ”
Claire Chazal said she was “ready to go”. “It fascinates me. I know it’s very difficult, I don’t know if I would have been able to. I may not have the political sense, but I wanted to,” she said, specifying that this “corresponded to a five-year term of a young president who could possibly seek out people from civil society , different”.
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