Parisian striker Kylian Mbappé has already told how, after the 2018 World Cup final, Emmanuel Macron tried to lure him to Marseille. “He even managed to place that I would have to go and play for Marseille one day. I replied that it was impossible!”he had told, amused, at the Parisian. In May 2021, during his “anecdote contest” with star youtubers McFly and Carlito, the president had tried to make people believe that Kylian Mbappé was going to leave PSG to join the Marseille club, calling the main interested party to confirm. or refute his statements. “Impossible. Impossible to go to Marseille. It’s not in our DNA that”laughed the French international. “Don’t overdo it either, Kylian”added Emmanuel Macron, teasingly.
But this love story between Emmanuel Macron and Marseille is also very political. A young, mixed and popular city, it is the opposite of what Emmanuel Macron represents; it allows him to break his image of presidents of the rich and the Parisian elites. It is also the city where Jean-Luc Mélenchon was elected deputy in 2017, where the rebellious came first in the first round of the last presidential election (31.12%, ahead of Emmanuel Macron and his 22.62%), and located in a region that traditionally votes on the right and on the extreme right. At a time when the president also seems to lean more towards his right side than his left side, his good relationship with the socialist mayor of the city, Benoît Payan, is an additional asset in the implementation of his “at the same time “.
2023-06-26 08:00:54
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