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Emmanuel Macron’s art of secrecy

“Burn everything!” During his first presidential campaign in 2017, between rallies and appointments, Emmanuel Macron would sometimes hand over preservation files and order the elimination of their contents for those colored red. Alexandre Benalla, who was in charge of the candidate’s security at the time, remembers this very well: In the basement of Macron’s campaign headquarters on the Rue de l’Abbé-Groult in Paris, he himself threw the pieces of paper into a metal barrel. 15he area and then set them on fire. Sometimes, for example, on the way to the airport where the future president was leaving to attend a rally, an impromptu roadside barbecue would be set up. It contains notes, scribbled ideas, various campaign documents, etc. It was located. Macron hadn’t even been elected yet, and secrecy was already his obsession.

“Super closeted,” “super paranoid,” “enigmatic”: That’s how some of the president’s closest associates describe him today. There are many presidents. But distrust and caution are reflexes Macron learned very early in his life. He spent part of his youth and 20s living in a form of secrecy. “Fifteen years (…) have been greatly misunderstood,” he admitted Le Figaro Journalist Anne Fulda said the following in her book about him: Emmanuel Macron is an excellent young man (“Emmanuel Macron is an excellent young man”). Brigitte Trogneux spent years in hiding because she was 24 years his senior. love stories from others. Brigitte Macron “Emmanuel needs everyone, he needs no one” she once told her husband’s biographer. “You can never get into his circle.” Since his time in his hometown of Amiens in northern France, the president has maintained a certain habit of compartmentalization and solitude.

Macron operates through communication silos. He’s the only one who knows who she was talking to via text message late at night. The president, who suffers from insomnia, often works until 2 a.m., as his Telegram account confirms. “Time to think”; “How do you see things?” On WhatsApp he writes: to small groups of former ministers, friends, elected officials, governors, mayors he met on his trips around the country, or doctors at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. He also writes, “I miss you,” “I’m proud of you,” “You hurt me,” “You’re family,” or before having a political falling out with someone: “We’re parting ways.” The often inscrutable Macron occasionally showed carelessness in his written messages. (Macron was contacted several times for comment by the Elysée Palace and via direct message last week. He did not respond.)

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