After dodging a hug from President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony, singer Catherine Ringer explained herself on France 2 on Wednesday. “It wasn’t okay for the president to kiss me there. I’m not his friend. Neither does he,” she said.
On March 8, during the sealing ceremony of the Constitution, the singer Rita Mitsouko was invited by Emmanuel Macron to sing The Marseillaise, which she has revisited for the occasion. At the end of his performance, the spectators were able to witness an uncomfortable scene: Macron kissed the hand of Catherine Ringer, who tried unsuccessfully to give him one in return, and who dodged the hug that the president wanted to do to him.
In interview at Telematin, Catherine Ringer said that the situation – solemn – did not lend itself to this. “It’s an expression of cronyism that wasn’t fair,” she said. I was extremely honored that he invited me, delighted to know that he had insisted, but now it was something solemn and serious, this Marseillaise. »
According to her, Emmanuelle Macron’s attempt at rapprochement was above all a public relations gesture.