Emmanuel Macron

blames 'homophobia' and

'misogyny' for obsession
with his older wife
New French President claims that if his wife was 20 years
younger than him, nobody would question their relationship
The newly-elected President of France claimed that misogyny and
homophobia were to blame for assumptions that he could not be
in love with his wife who is 24 years his senior.

Speaking to Le Parisien newspaper, Emmanuel Macron addressed

speculations about his sexuality and what he described as
parallel lives people had attached to him.

Mr Macron said that if his wife was younger than him, nobody
would question the validity of their relationship.

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If I had been 20 years older than my wife, nobody would have
thought for a single second that I couldnt be [an intimate
partner], he said.

Its because she is 20 years older than me that lots of people

say, This [relationship] cant be tenable, it cant be possible.

Reports concerning his relationship, he claimed, were due to

misogyny and people ascribing to traditional, homogenous
views about society.

Mr Macron first met his wife, Brigitte Trogneux, when he was a 15-
year-old drama student. They developed a closer relationship
when they worked together to re-write a play.
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The couple married in 2007, when he was almost 30 and she was
54. During the presidential campaign, Ms Macron has been a
constant figure by his side.

A new biography of the politician revealed that the teenagers

parents were shocked when they discovered he had started an
affair with his married school teacher.

Mr Macron, who beat Front National candidate Marine Le Pen at

the weekend with 66.1 per cent of the vote, also addressed
rumours that he was gay.

He claimed there was rampant homophobia as people would

accuse him of being a homosexual as if it was a stain or a
hidden disease.

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Mr Macron said that people who peddled or accepted such

rumours had lost their sense of reality and had a big problem
with homosexuality.

There is a big problem with the presentation of society and [how

they see] the place of women, he added.

The President said such rumours about him were also

destabilising for those who were closest to him and he was
sad that politics was not more civilised.