“You saw what you were doing ?”: Alain Duhamel, very embarrassed in front of Apolline de Malherbe, she did not hesitate to point this out to him

Invited the day after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Alain Duhamel returned to his meetings with the politician. Apolline de Malherbe then makes an embarrassing remark to him.

© BFMTV Invited the day after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Apolline de Malherbe made an embarrassing remark à Alain Duhamel on BFMTV.

IN BRIEF

• This Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Apolline de Malherbe received political journalist Alain Duhamel on BFMTV
• The day after Jean-Marie Le Pen's death, the columnist returned to the politician
• And here is the presenter of Face &agrave Apolline points out strange behavior on his part

On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96.Invited the next day on the BFMTV set, journalist Alain Duhamel, who has interviewed the former politician on numerous occasions, returned to some of his meetings with Marine Le Pen's father.

After watching an excerpt from their interviews, Apolline de Malherbe questioned Alain Duhamel on the qualifications he would give to this man: “Republican”, he said. Enough to shock the journalist: “Republican, you would really say ? You would put him in the Republican arc, Jean-Marie Le Pen ?”. To which Alain Duhamel retorts: “No, that's not what I mean, he was playing the game, the rules of the Fifth Republic”, he qualifies.

Apolline de Malherbe makes a bitter observation about Alain Duhamel

The journalist and columnist at BFMTV continues: “He was not seeking to seize power by force, nor was he seeking ideological accommodations, he was the extreme right. He brought the extreme right to a level that she had never had before (…) What he did that I totally contest on the merits but no one had done it before, he managed to impose a political movement by the force of his words and his charisma on television”, explains Alain Duhamel.

But here is what Apolline de Malherbe wants to share an observation: “You have seen what you are doing Alain Duhamel and it is perfectly natural, you have punctuated your sentences since the beginning of this interview with “and I did not share his ideas“ and “I fought his ideas“. Basically, you almost embody in the way in which you have this embarrassment, what we also see in the French political class. The Prime Minister who paid a sort of tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen”. 

“I share much more…”

Alain Duhamel then indicates: “It's pugnacious. ÇIt will not have escaped you that there is a difference in tone between the Élysée and Matignon between Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou. Personally, I agree much more with Emmanuel Macron's formula, that is to say, ‘History will judge him’, a way of saying that it will judge him severely. François Bayrou, who does not spare him, who presents him as an adversary but who does not demonize him at all, analyses the political journalist.