His book,

Power Games

, comes out on May 12, but Mathieu Gallet has already delivered some memories – some bitter, others crisp – of his time as president of Radio France, between 2014 and 2018.

In an interview with Le Parisien, the director of the Majelan podcast platform, looks back on these turbulent years.

Sentenced to a fine of 30,000 euros, in a case of consultant contracts passed without calls for tenders during his stay at the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), and which cost him his place at Radio France, Mathieu Gallet was marked by the interference of the political world in his mandate.

Pressure and interference

He is for example convinced that Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture of François Hollande, wanted and obtained his eviction.

According to him, the left-wing government has scuttled its mandate, inaugurated with a budget cut of 20 million euros, job cuts and a historic one-month strike.

This social movement remains a painful memory for Mathieu Gallet: “I wanted to throw in the towel.

I could no longer set foot in my office, which had been threatened with being invaded, for fear of being sequestered.

I remember a hundred people banging on the walls to get in.

I had to leave the Round House by a secret route.

I made my appointments in a café.

Humanly, this period was hard to live.

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Mathieu Gallet is also angry with Emmanuel Macron, then a candidate for the presidential election, and who had mentioned, in a joking tone, the rumor of an affair between them: “I learned about it on Twitter.

On the form, I regret that he did not warn me.

It would have been more elegant of him.

It's a question of respect.

The same year, after the election of Emmanuel Macron, François Bayrou, who had just been appointed ephemeral Minister of Justice, put pressure on Mathieu Gallet.

First “to complain about the withdrawal of Jean-Louis Bourlanges, a France Culture columnist engaged behind Emmanuel Macron” then to say that he was “unhappy with an investigation into the MoDem, his own party.

It's incredible.

I've never seen that.

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