The former Minister of National Education and current Director General of the NGO One France publishes "Objective 2030: a world without extreme poverty".

Guest of Anne Roumanoff's program "It feels good", she explains having recently fallen back on discussions with François Hollande, then President of the Republic, where she warned him that Emmanuel Macron risked betraying him.

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She doesn't really have a high regard for the behavior of her former colleague.

Former Minister of National Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has, according to his statements, warned President François Hollande in 2014 that Emmanuel Macron risked betraying him.

Guest Thursday of the program of Anne Roumanoff

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, the current director general of the NGO One France talks about her exchanges with the former President of the Republic about the one who was at the time a young person Minister of the Economy still unknown to the general public.

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Asked about the express trajectory of Emmanuel Macron, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem remembers having alerted the former President of the Republic.

"I recently rediscovered the exchanges I had with François Hollande. I told him at the time that I felt betrayal coming", she explains.

"I told him several times."

"We forget that betrayal is ugly"

The former Minister of Education specifies that the personality of Emmanuel Macron very quickly inspired mistrust in him.

"In 2014, when he became Minister of the Economy and I became Minister of National Education, I quickly perceived that we did not really have the same values, nor the same sincerity", tackle she does.

"And so it couldn't do it."

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For Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the problem is larger than the person of the current president.

"What strikes me is how much we forget, in our public debate and in our general public commentary, to say that betrayal is something that is ugly," she says, apologizing. to speak in simple words ".

"I don't find betrayal admirable. I don't find it daring."

Emmanuel Macron resigned from his post as Minister of the Economy in August 2016, before declaring himself a presidential candidate a few months later, in November. 

"I cannot say that I am loyal to what Gérard Collomb has become"

Far from being a necessary step in politics, according to Najat Vallaud-Belkacem betrayal is harmful behavior to the image of the political class.

"If we want to convince the French of the sincerity of its commitments, it would be good to start by carrying this sincerity in its own course", she theorizes.

"It could be a new rule of political life that would do him a lot of good."

She adds that this rejection of betrayal in politics does not prevent that "paths can separate".

And takes example on its own course.

"It is obvious that I cannot tell you that I am loyal to what Gérard Collomb has become in recent years", she illustrates, with reference to the former socialist mayor of Lyon and former minister of 'Interior by Emmanuel Macron.