Europe 1 with AFP 1:26 p.m., April 19, 2022

In an interview published on Tuesday, Jean-Michel Macron, the father of the president-candidate, said he had "a lot of admiration" for the way his son leads France and judging the French "very ungrateful" on his five-year term.

"I approve of 90% of what he does. We never agree 100%," added Emmanuel Macron's father.

Five days before the second round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron's father said, in an interview published on Tuesday by

L'Est Républicain

, that he had "a lot of admiration" for the way his son is running France and judging the French. "very ungrateful" on his five-year term.

"I have a lot of admiration for the way he currently leads the state. I find that you have to have a lot of courage and that the French are very ungrateful, but that's nothing new," said Jean-Michel Macron. , questioned in his house in Amiens for the regional newspapers of the Ebra group.

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"I approve of 90% of what he does. We never agree 100%. I am not a follower of a sect", adds the former neurologist, saying he is "confident" on the results of Sunday's second round.

“He had a lot of merit in facing up to everything that fell on his head, especially the Covid,” he believes.

And, since the start of the war in Ukraine, "he had a lot of courage" and "there are not many European leaders who have done what he has done".

Jean-Michel Macron also indicates that he was present at the pre-first round meeting at La Défense Arena on April 2, but that he does not see his son "not often", with "the schedule" which is his.

"The last time he came to see me kindly here, in the house where he grew up, was November 21, 2019, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new faculty of sciences in Amiens", says he, indicating that, "for the moment, there is nothing planned" to celebrate a possible re-election of his son on Sunday evening.