Claire Chazal, in “Quelle époque” on France 2 on April 27, 2024.
Claire Chazal, in “Quelle époque” on France 2 on April 27, 2024.
POLITICS – She saw herself clearly on rue de Valois. Journalist Claire Chazal confided that she was very interested in the position of Minister of Culture under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, to the point of having expressed – discreetly – her desires. In vain.
“I think my name really got around” for the position, Claire Chazal told Saturday April 27 in the show What an era on France 2. Since Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, the name of the former TF1 presenter has come up during ministerial reshuffles. And she wouldn’t have said no, quite the contrary.
“I always said that it interested me a lot and I really would have liked to do it”she added, slipping away from having mentioned the subject “in conversations with people who were supposed to decide”. “Afterwards I never applied again. But they knew I think I was ready to go, that I was passionate about it. I know it’s very difficult and I don’t know if I would have been capable, I don’t have the political sense perhaps but I wanted to”she said.
After more than 20 years at the head of TF1 newspapers, Claire Chazal was replaced in 2015 by Anne-Claire Coudray. She then continued her career within France Télévisions.
In 2020, the journalist had already told Europe 1 that she had been “attempted” by post, without having been contacted. “It also corresponded to a five-year term of a young president who could possibly seek out people from civil society”, she explains. Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term was in fact marked by the irruption of civil society into government, with figures like Marlène Schiappa. A practice which gradually disappeared during his second five-year term
Since 2017, five Ministers of Culture have been appointed: Françoise Nyssen, Franck Riester, Roselyne Bachelot, Rima Abdul Malak and the current occupant Rachida Dati. “She has a strength, a will and a determination that amazes me”, said Claire Chazal about the current minister. Not resentful.
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