Get involved in politics? Michel-Edouard Leclerc “thinks about it all the time”. “We need to review the tax system and probably pay more tax in the name of more egalitarian policies, for social cohesion, but I say that that does not solve the French debt problem," he said.

The French debt, "I am not dramatizing it. If we really make the investments that we are announcing, in the energy plan, the plan for railway equipment for the SNCF, it's a good investment which will bring a lot of money to France", he added.