The latest staging of the Head of State at the Elysée Palace, in a black military-inspired sweatshirt, has sparked debate in the international press, which sees it as a nod to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Is Emmanuel Macron copying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky? And if so, is it indecent or politically clever? After causing a major debate on social networks in France, the official photos of the French president, usually dressed to the nines, swapping his navy blue suit and tie for an armed forces hoodie, intrigue the press today international.
“The similarities – particularly an always clean-shaven President Macron who suddenly gives out a stubble – have not gone unnoticed by policy pundits,” wrote in the United States on Wall Street Journal about the images of the Head of State at work, as he is immortalized by his photographer Soazig de la Moissonnière. It was she who published the photos of Emmanuel Macron on Monday March 14 on his Instagram account: serious, focused, unshaven, and now… in a black sweatshirt with the “CPA 10” logo of the special forces troops of the army of the French air. An outfit that reminds us only too much of the Ukrainian president, who has intervened in a t-shirt and jacket since the start of the war in his country. And which has also experienced a spectacular gain in popularity.
“Emmanuel Imitate-cron!”
One of the most noticed tweets was that of Oleksiy Sorokin, one of the editors of the Kyiv Independent :
A month ago, it would have been hard to imagine President Emmanuel Macron trying to copy President Volodymyr Zelensky. This is the reality we live in today.”
In the United States, the Wall Street Journal contextualizes: when leaders turn to a look casual, says a stylist from Washington in the columns of the conservative daily, is that they want to show that they are human beings, too. The snapshot of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in shorts and T-shirts after jogging, holding a McDonald’s cup in their hands, during the 1992 presidential election, has remained a reference in the field in the United States.
The idea causes hilarity across the Channel in the
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