"Emmanuel Macron, the Julien Doré of politics": Arnaud Montebourg explains himself

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The phrase did not please the singer.

It must not have pleased the President of the Republic either.

In his book

, Arnaud Montebourg compares the work of the two men.

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the former politician and current entrepreneur specifies that it is as much a "tribute" to the versatility of Julien Doré as to the policy "without direction, nor clarity" of Emmanuel Macron, let him charge again.

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"Emmanuel Macron is ultimately a singer of variety"

In his book 

, Arnaud Montebourg writes that Emmanuel Macron "liked to make up himself, to put on makeup, to put on makeup so as never to appear as he was. His method was concealment, an art in which he had always been more gifted. This is how Emmanuel Macron, the theatrical, gradually became, in my eyes, a sort of Julien Doré of politics. Like Julien Doré, Emmanuel Macron likes to change his costume, register, and wind speed. Emmanuel is ultimately a singer of variety ".

The former Minister of Productive Recovery under François Hollande is defending himself from any attack against the singer.

“First of all, it's a tribute to Julien Doré,” he says.

"Julien Doré said 'Oh, leave me alone!', And I understand that, he is not in there, the unfortunate one."

At the microphone of Europe 1, however, he reiterates the tackle for Emmanuel Macron.

"He has a brilliant career, he is very talented, he has a lot of talent," he begins.

"But he confused everyone. And now everyone knows it." 

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"The diagonal of the void"

For Arnaud Montebourg, the darting technique which allowed the express rise of Emmanuel Macron is disastrous for the country now that he is in charge.

"This technique has the consequence that we do not know where we are going. Today, what is the truth of the President of the Republic? Where are we going? What is the project? What is the line?" , wonders the former socialist.

And the health crisis is in no way a mitigating circumstance for him.

"Nobody is lucky: Sarkozy had the subprime crisis. Hollande had the Bataclan," he recalls coldly.

"Excuse me, but that's the job. It's like that, it's hard."

For Arnaud Montebourg, on the contrary, it is in times of crisis that the clarity of the president is most necessary.

"The world is more and more dangerous, more and more chaotic. We need to know where we are going. For me, Emmanuel Macron, it is the diagonal of the void," he asserts.

"The French want to know how we build a project together. That's politics. It's not power."