How the newspaper "L'Opinion" convinced Emmanuel Macron to imagine the France of 2025

INTERVIEW

It is almost an act of candidacy for his own succession that Emmanuel Macron makes Thursday in the newspaper 

.

The president imagines there, within the framework of a special edition number 2.000 of the weekly, France of 2025. The founder of the newspaper Nicolas Beytout (also political columnist on Europe 1) explains at the microphone of Philippe Vandel in the program

 how the President of the Republic has agreed to lend himself to this game of projection into the future.

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How did Nicolas Beytout get the president's participation?

"By simply asking," he sums up, explaining that time had played in his favor.

"Things happened quite a long time ago, because this kind of number is quite easy to predict. So, we set up this business with the editor-in-chief Rémi Godeau. We made a list of possible wishes. And then we started and we asked Emmanuel Macron. "

Uncertain participation

But, despite a presidential team that quickly showed interest in the challenge of the imagination, Emmanuel Macron's text almost did not appear. "We had the text yesterday afternoon. Until yesterday afternoon, we were not sure of having it, because the schedule of a president is unpredictable", specifies Nicolas Beytout. "It is the law of the genre, there is no possible criticism on this subject."

The founder of 

thus believed, after the Rambouillet attack last Friday, that the presidential participation would not be drafted and sent on time. "I told myself that we would do without Emmanuel Macron. But we had the chance to do with" he rejoices. A total of fifty personalities from different worlds who, each in their own way, imagine France in which issue 3,000 of 

. Among them, two members of the government: the Minister of Justice Eric Dupont-Moretti and the government spokesman Gabriel Attal.