“Is Emmanuel Macron’s ‘Kid at the Elysée’ Image Damaging his Presidential Authority?”

Is Emmanuel Macron taking too many risks with his presidential image? This reflection leaves one perplexed as to justifying the words “Kid at the Elysée”. A French citizen who has fulfilled the eligibility criteria has been chosen by his fellow citizens as President of the Republic and is reduced to the simple expression of “Kid at the Elysée”. And for good reason, the acts, gestures and language used by the current French head of state do not fit the mold that makes the real Presidents of real Republics.

To say that the “Kid” to whom the French have entrusted the keys to their country is therefore kidding with the fifth world power!

Is it normal that the president of one of the most powerful countries in the world can booze beers in Bandal, a popular district of the Kinshasa megalopolis?

Is it normal for the Gamin de L’Elysée to point out that he is not coming to Congo Brazzaville to serve soup to his colleague Denis Sassou N’Guesso?

Is it normal that the child in whom the French have placed their destiny can take his Burkinabé counterpart as a refrigeration technician?

Is it acceptable to see the French administer a shameful beating followed by rotten eggs on the face of their kid from the Elysée?

What robot portrait should we finally draw of a real and therefore respected head of state?

At home in our countries, it seems, less evolved, we do not slap a head of state. You don’t throw rotten eggs at him.

So that he is not perceived in the black clothes of the bad president, in our country, a head of state, without being deified, commands respect and honor.

This is why our Heads of State will never appear in the guise of the little judge from Meaux, even less the little kid from the Elysée.

A chef, with us, is healthy and sacred.

Asia Dominique de Marseille / Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville