The new Minister of Culture Rachida Dati is close to the president of Real Madrid Florentino Pérez, as revealed by Frédéric Hermel on RMC.
The appointment of Rachida Dati as Minister of Culture in the new Attal government surprised all of France. Football fans are also surprised to learn that Nicolas Sarkozy’s former Minister of Justice is ” close » by Florentino Pérez, the president of Real Madrid. This is what Frédéric Hermel, the RMC columnist, correspondent for 20 years in Madrid and who knows the boss of Casa Blanca very well.
In April 2010, the former Minister of Justice (May 2007-June 2009), now a Member of the European Parliament, met political leaders in the Spanish capital before visiting the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. She then received a jersey (number 1) from the hands of Florentino Pérez, who was already described as “ friend » by the press. She then took the opportunity to take 30 children from the Paris region to see a Merengues match against Bilbao.
“ I love Florentino Pérez, I know him very well. I have been to the Santiago Bernabéu many times », had launched the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris (since 2008, re-elected 2014 and 2020), in an interview in the magazine Vanity Fair in 2013. His schedule for the coming months will not allow him to see the Bernabéu again, for example for the debut of Kylian Mbappé in the Real Madrid jersey.
