His pen flies away from the Elysee. Sylvain Fort, Emmanuel Macron's director of communication and press, will be leaving his position by the end of the month. "I want to move towards other professional and personal projects, and especially to devote time to my family," said this former professor. Very close to the President of the Republic, he had initially refused the post, considering it too time-consuming. The departure of this councilor of the first circle announces other planned movements within the Elysée team which, during the first months of 2019, will undergo a complete renewal.
An irrevocable decision. Emmanuel Macron had a hard time accepting Sylvain Fort's decision. Late Wednesday night, the President of the Republic called friends to ask them to convince his colleague to reconsider his decision. But the man with the 300 speeches written since the beginning of the mandate made an irrevocable decision for reasons that, certainly, are respectable but do not explain everything.
In osmosis with the president. It must be known that Sylvain Fort joined Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of the campaign, with an atypical profile. His fields of expertise and his passions, very diverse, make him an opera specialist, end Germanist and exegete Antoine de Saint-Exupery. In intellectual osmosis with Emmanuel Macron at the top of the state, they built a sort of ideal France through words.
The three keynote speeches written by Sylvain Fort and Emmanuel Macron will certainly remain those dedicated to Colonel Beltrame, the Catholics of France and Johnny Hallyday. The B side: Sylvain Fort, forced by his boss to supervise the communication had to frequent a media world that he dislikes. Let's just say it: Sylvain Fort hates journalists.
The first circle is crumbling. Next on departure: Ismail Emelien the special advisor, who has already asked for some time to leave. Other less well-known advisors have already left the ship, such as parliamentary advisor Stéphane Séjourné, who will take care of the European campaign, or as the Middle East adviser to the president.
This reworking in the heart of the Elyos machine is anything but harmless. It will also concern the highest level. In the short or medium term, it is question of the departure of Alexis Koehler the secretary general of the Elysée, keystone of the presidential system