Invited on the set of BFMTV this Wednesday, the singer of “Lacs du Connemara” did not hide the evil he thinks of certain politicians.
Few political figures find favor in the eyes of Michel Sardou. This is what emerges from the long interview granted this Wednesday to BFMTV by the 75-year-old singer. The one who will take to the roads of France in October 2023 for a new tour, called I remember a goodbyesaid he voted for Emmanuel Macron in the two rounds of the presidential election last April.
“Who else?”, he asked, before sharing what he thinks of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, unsuccessful candidate: “He talks bullshit, anyway!”
The interpreter of Connemara Lakes had already expressed all the evil he thinks of the president of the LFI group at the time of the elections: “If Mélenchon wins, I’m out!”, He had dropped in the columns of Paris Match. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was quick to respond, telling him that “the universal tax system” imagined by LFI would not allow tax evasion, even from abroad.
“He thinks I’m going for the dough!”, Annoys the singer today. “I don’t care about the dough. I always paid my taxes, I never yelled because I paid 60% taxes. I have 40 left, and with the 40 I live well.”
Ecology yes, but not “political ecology”
Will environmentalists have a better chance of seducing him? After all, he sang in 1976 already the propensity of men to puncture the resources of their planet in the title I accuse… But it is not Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts, who will succeed in convincing him. After watching the images of a meeting in which she said she wanted “a France without billionaires”, the singer exclaims:
“It’s not ecological to abolish billionaires! Why do they pollute more? Me, I take the private plane, when I’m on tour (…) Let’s be reasonable!”
“Whether we pay attention to the toxic products that we put into food or agriculture, whether we think about slowing down on shale gas, yes! But she doesn’t talk about ecology, she says that she wants Bernard Arnault’s skin. But she’s stupid! Bernard Arnault employs thousands of people.” And to summarize: “I like ecology, but I don’t like political ecology!”.
“Zemmour pisses me off!”
Could the sensitivity of Michel Sardou, then, find resonance on the far right of the political spectrum? Not at all: “Zemmour pisses me off! It’s too easy to say: ‘Everything will change if there are no more immigrants’. It’s ridiculous! at the limit…”
And to sweep away the theory of the “great replacement”: “I don’t like these exaggerations. He is an intelligent man, however, a good journalist, a good polemicist, but there… that doesn’t do it, what . We don’t follow him. And a leader, we have to follow him.”
