Who is Mathieu Gallet, CEO of Radio France and supposed lover of Emmanuel Macron?

AN EXTREMELY AMBITIOUS MAN

For several months, Emmanuel Macron has been the subject of many rumors concerning his sexual orientation. According to the latter, the leader of the En Marche! Would be homosexual and would have a liaison with Mathieu Gallet, the CEO of Radio France. If the candidate in the next presidential election recently denied these gossip by assuring that he had "no double life" and that he held "more than all his family and marital life" with Birgitte Trogneux, his supposed lover Did not comment. And for good reason, the forty-year-old, native of Lot-et-Garonne, is very discreet about his private life.

A charming, hardworking and brilliant, Mathieu Gallet has made his career evolve in a dazzling way. After graduating from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux in 1999, he obtained a DEA in Economic Analysis of Public Decisions at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University the following year. He quickly became responsible for the international sales administration of the Pathé group, before taking up the position of official in charge of institutional relations for the Canal + group in 2004. Two years later Mathieu Gallet left the private sector and was appointed Director of the deputy cabinet of the new minister Frédéric Mitterrand, in 2007. During this period, he deals with the reform of the structure of France Televisions and the suppression of advertising on public stations.

In 2010, the businessman was appointed president of the INA thanks to the infallible support of Frédéric Mitterrand. An appointment that will generate much criticism. The majority criticized the young man, then 33 years old, for lack of experience and never run a business.

2014 marks the year of the consecration for Mathieu Gallet. On 27 February, the CSA appointed him CEO of Radio France. An appointment that will, once again, polemic. The young boss is accused of having spent nearly 105,000 euros to rearrange his office of function, where he installed carpet and woodwork of rosewood, by the Canard enchained, before being finally bleached by a report of The General Inspector of Finance, in 2015. "For me, it puts things squarely: I am reestablished in my truth," he said. "My age, my mouth it was not right". And if Mathieu Gallet faces many critics who consider him "untouchable and vitrified," he does not intend to resign: "Those who thought this know me badly," he says, confident.

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