Faced with children, the masks fall. Eric Zemmour paid the price during his time on the show To the blackboard during the campaign for the first round of the presidential election, showing himself to be particularly unsympathetic towards the schoolchildren who questioned him. If he could not come there for the 2022 presidential election, Emmanuel Macron had participated in this program produced by Mélissa Theuriau in 2017. In all sincerity, he had answered a very intimate question: why he did not have a ‘children. The outgoing president, 44 years old and married since 2007 with Brigitte Macron, had no offspring. His wife has three children from her first marriage. In To the blackboard in March 2017, broadcast on C8, the politician had then faced a question on a particularly personal subject: “Do you miss not being a father?“
Slightly disconcerted, Emmanuel Macron then replied: “It’s a choice I made. My wife Bridget, she had three children [Sébastien (né en 1975), Laurence (née en 1977) et Tiphaine (née en 1984), NDLR]. There are some who were tall when I met them and there is one who was smaller. The last one was your age. And afterwards, we asked ourselves the question and I considered that the most important thing is that you raise your children well, that you love them. And then I have seven grandchildren.“He is indeed very close to these toddlers who call him daddy and they were present during his big meeting at La Défense Arena at the beginning of April.
At ease in front of this audience of students aged 10 to 11, the former Minister of the Economy of François Hollande explained that being a father would have been a choice “selfish“: “There are several types of family and what matters is that it is always a love project. The most unbearable thing is a family where people don’t love each other and so we made the choice not to have children for me because it would have been a somewhat selfish choice, I think.. I don’t miss it because I love Brigitte’s children as if they were mine and I love our grandchildren as if they were mine.”
The paternity of Emmanuel Macron has often been questioned. Nicolas Sarkozy, father of four children, had estimated, in off, that the young president was struggling to impose his authority for personal reasons: “The bottom line is that he has no children.“ A judgment that he may have since reviewed after these five years of practice. The former president also officially showed his support for the outgoing presidential candidate. The second round, this April 24, opposes the current president to Marine Le Pen.