Only one woman close to Macron's adviser: not exemplary, recognizes Moreno

The Minister Delegate in charge of Gender Equality, Elisabeth Moreno, indicated that she had criticized Emmanuel Macron for not setting an "example" by having at his side only one woman among his closest advisers, Sunday during the Grand Jury

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The list of the first circle of members of the cabinet of the President of the Republic, available on the Elysée website, has 13 names, 12 men and 1 woman, the deputy chief of staff Cécile Geneste.

As asked, citing these figures, if political leaders should not be exemplary on this subject, Elisabeth Moreno replied: "Well yes. If we preach something so important, we must set an example, and we discussed it ".

"I told him: 'Mr. President, you are not setting an example'", she added, specifying with a smile that she preferred to keep Emmanuel Macron's answer to herself.

"In our country, it is difficult to give space to women" 

But "have you seen, beyond Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a president under the Fifth Republic who took up this issue of equality between women and men with so much force and vigor? that Emmanuel Macron? ", insisted on the minister, recalling that he had made this file a great cause of his five-year term.

"Have you seen a government as equal as this one? 51% of women", she continued, citing those who occupy "strategic positions", such as Florence Parly (Armies), Barbara Pompili ( Ecological transition), Roselyne Bachelot (Culture) and Elisabeth Borne (Work).

More broadly, "in our country, it is difficult to give space to women," she noted.

"It's not going fast enough, we have to go much further," she said.