Angelique Chrisafis - Macron’S Appeal To French From Behind Gilt Desk Leaves Gilets Jaunes Unimpressed

Flaunting Élysée Palace’s golden rooms does piffling to quell ‘president of the rich’ tag

Talk most backfiring? 

It was the most of import TV appearance of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency: the 40-year-old quondam banker had to testify to an angry nation that he was non an arrogant “president of the rich” together with that he understood ordinary French people’s combat to brand ends meet.

Yet Macron’s alternative to deliver his prerecorded oral communication on social inequality from 1 of the most opulent together with golden rooms inward the luxurious, 365-room Élysée Palace was non lost on gilets jaunesprotesters who bring been occupying protestation barricades on rural roundabouts.

The Guardian

Angelique Chrisafis - Macron’s appeal to French from behind Au desk leaves gilets jaunes unimpressed