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"It's still violent between them": François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron face six months of forced cohabitation

"It's still violent between them": François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron face six months of forced cohabitation
François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace on April 15. For the past six months, the executive couple's rule has caused some friction. AFP/Sarah Meysonnier

The executive couple has been sharing an apartment at the top of the state for six months now. Each respects the other, but lives their own lives. This unprecedented episode, which occurred on Tuesday, is a case in point. That evening, Emmanuel Macron was in Nice at the World Oceans Summit . At 8 p.m., he left a meeting with the leaders of Costa Rica, hurried to dinner before heading to the studio that France 2 had set up on site for a special program on the environment. He therefore didn't have time to turn on the television to listen to his Prime Minister, a guest on the TF1 news.

Following the Nogent tragedy , where a supervisor was stabbed by a teenager , François Bayrou announced live on air the ban on the sale of knives to minors. A presidential advisor barely had time to summarize the content of the interview to the head of state, while he sat down in front of the cameras. The show began. He was in turn questioned about the day's bloody news, defending a ban on social media for those under 15. Two interventions an hour apart, two different approaches.

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