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Flaunting Élysée Palace’s gilded rooms does little to quell ‘president of the rich’ tag Talk about backfiring? It was the most important TV appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency: the 40-year-old former banker had to prove to an angry nation that he was not an arrogant “president of the rich” and that he understood ordinary French people’s struggle to make ends meet. Yet Macron’s choice to deliver his prerecorded speech on social inequality from one of the most opulent and golden rooms in the luxurious, 365-room Élysée Palace was not lost on gilets jaunesprotesters who have been occupying protest barricades on rural roundabouts. The Guardian Angelique Chrisafis - Macron’s appeal to French from behind gold desk leaves gilets jaunes unimpressed
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Flaunting Élysée Palace’s gilded rooms does little to quell ‘president of the rich’ tagFlaunting Élysée Palace’s gilded rooms does little to quell ‘president of the rich’ tag Talk about backfiring? It was the most important TV appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency: the 40-year-old former banker had to prove to an angry nation that he was not an arrogant “president of the rich” and that he understood ordinary French people’s struggle to make ends meet. Yet Macron’s choice to deliver his prerecorded speech on social inequality from one of the most opulent and golden rooms in the luxurious, 365-room Élysée Palace was not lost on gilets jaunesprotesters who have been occupying protest barricades on rural roundabouts. The Guardian Angelique Chrisafis - Macron’s appeal to French from behind gold desk leaves gilets jaunes unimpressed
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Talk about backfiring?
It was the most important TV appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency: the 40-year-old former banker had to prove to an angry nation that he was not an arrogant “president of the rich” and that he understood ordinary French people’s struggle to make ends meet.
Yet Macron’s choice to deliver his prerecorded speech on social inequality from one of the most opulent and golden rooms in the luxurious, 365-room Élysée Palace was not lost on gilets jaunesprotesters who have been occupying protest barricades on rural roundabouts.
The Guardian