He may have played it, he regrets the controversy. After saying on Tuesday at France Inter that we would not see him “no longer with a tie but with a turtleneck” to save energy”, Bruno Le Maire returned to the media episode that followed his statements in an interview for Raw.
He particularly regrets not having been heard about the various issues that he had come to develop as Minister of Economy.
“The media system is running”
“It’s a totally crazy thing: you do a 20-minute show, you talk about purchasing power, you talk about the 2023 budget, you talk about the energy situation, about energy sobriety, you say that in your office if it’s 18 or 19. you wear a sweater high neck and goes live. (…) It seems to me that it is not of great interest”, lamented the Bercy tenant.
However, on the day of his statement on the subject, Bruno Le Maire appeared in a turtleneck sweater on his Twitter account, without a caption to contextualize a photo that was difficult not to link to his morning controversy.
For Bruno Le Maire, the latter is due above all to the journalistic treatment that he says “surprised”: “the media system gets carried away by a simple comment”, he laments.
“No messages”
He also justified his choice of clothing by working conditions that would make him feel cooler than an employee with a physical job.
“In my office I don’t run, you see, I read notes, I sign signatures and I sit motionless,” explains Bruno Le Maire.
The Minister of Economy explains that he has never prescribed one behavior instead of another.
“A minister, a member of the government, does not have to tell French men and women how they should dress,” he said.
On Wednesday afternoon, in the midst of the media uproar, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne appeared in a puffer jacket in Matignon. For his part, the Paris deputy Gilles Le Gendre said that he had abandoned the use of the dryer, a type of machine that consumes a lot of energy.
Bruno Le Maire denied the existence of any communication strategy of the majority in terms of clothing.
“There is no message. (…) The Prime Minister, I’m sorry, but she dresses as she wants, and I dress as I want.”
Source: BFM TV
