Rama Yade is controversial because of his interview-river for The Express published in its edition of November 19, 2021. Currently Africa director of think tank of the Atlantic Council in Washington, which promotes relations between the United States and African countries, the former secretary of state installed in America offered her perspective on the state of France, in particular on questions of discrimination and “wokism”. Words that have aroused the anger of many personalities, whether Eric Zemmour or members of the government, such as Sarah El Haïry in charge of Youth in the government, and Marlène Schiappa, who deals with questions of Citizenship. A complex situation for the one who worked under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy and who is the mother of a 7 and a half year old girl, Jeanne. The latter, educated at the French lycée, is the fruit of her relationship with Joseph Zimet, a senior official. Who is the father of his child?
In August 2019, the name of Joseph Zimet comes out of the shadows. He’s been nominated communications director at the Elysée by the President of the Republic. However, when Emmanuel Macron reshuffles his cabinet after the health crisis, he is replaced by Clément Leonarduzzi. He then took the post of prefect of Haute-Marne in September 2020.
Fans of Yiddish music will have already noticed his name because he is the son of Ben Zimet, Canadian singer and storyteller, champion of Yiddish culture, the language spoken by a large majority of Jews around the world. He lived in Senegal and founded, on the island of Gorée, a festival on the memory of slavery. Rama Yade was born in Dakar in Senegal, we imagine that she must have had beautiful conversations with Ben Zimet on this country and its history.
History is also the basis of Joseph Zimet, historian by training. He thus worked on the centenary of the First World War. “In parallel with the fights waged by his father around the history of slavery, Joseph Zimet became, with his time at the Ministry of Defense, a specialist in memorial politics.“, specifies the Sunday newspaper.
It was during the 2000s that the paths of Joseph Zimet and Rama Yade crossed, despite their political differences, he militates in the socialist party, she joined the UMP from 2005, supporting Nicolas Sarkozy. This will not prevent them from forming a couple and starting a family: on May 21, 2013 their daughter, Jeanne, was born. Of the mother of his daughter, Joseph Zimet will say in the film Men of …, published by Bérengère Bonté in 2015: “My wife plays in the Champions League [Ligue des Champions]. And I, in the honor division. “
Today is an ocean, Atlantic, which separates Rama Yade and Joseph Zimet. She recovered in America after the failure of her candidacy for the 2017 presidential election, for lack of sufficient sponsorship, while he “even aspired to a position in the government of Edouard Philippe” according to JDD.