Not yet arrived, she must already think of leaving … Léa Salamé, who has just been appointed to the presentation of the “8 pm” of France 2 at the start of the school year, promised to put herself withdrawing “if her companion Raphaël Glucksmann was a candidate in 2027, in an interview with La Tribune on Sunday.
The leader of public square, possible presidential on the left, “has been a deputy for six years and that has not prevented me from presenting The political program For five years, to interview July 14, the debate of the in-between-tours in 2022 or to have all the policies in the microphone in France Inter, “said Léa Salamé, questioned about the risk of” conflicts of interest “since she was appointed Thursday to replace Anne-Sophie Lapix.
“Everyone has their opinions”
The journalist wanted to assert her independence from her companion: “My couple is not a secret for anyone, but our activities are enormously partitioned. And everyone has their opinions, their vision, their convictions. He obviously never held my pen! Nor I, by the way. »»
In addition, Léa Salamé, who had set back from France Inter when Raphaël Glucksmann had been a candidate for the Europeans, believes that times have changed: “From Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen via Bruno Retailleau, Édouard Philippe or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, I never felt in their eyes that they took me for” the wife of … “, she explained. Times have changed and the French, including political, are much more feminist than you might think. ”
An “evidence”?
Nevertheless, and despite all her common sense arguments, Léa Salamé judges “obvious” that she had to put herself “withdraw” if Raphaël Glucksmann is a candidate for the presidential election.
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In the past, journalists like Audrey Pulvar (then as a couple with Arnaud Montebourg), Marie Drucker (with François Baroin), Béatrice Schönberg (married to Jean-Louis Borloo) or Anne Sinclair (then wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn) had to put their careers, at least in part, in parentheses, because of the political activities of their spouse. The reverse never arose.
