Brigitte Macron Expected Alone in Rabat

Although she regularly accompanies the head of state on his international tours, Emmanuel Macron’s wife is exceptionally making the trip alone to attend the opening of this cultural complex, whose construction was completed in 2021. It is only her fourth international outing without the president in nine years, recalls the newspaper L’Opinion.

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This high-level presence is part of a spectacular diplomatic rapprochement. After receiving the three sisters of King Mohammed VI in Paris in February 2024, France officially recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara last summer. A bilateral dynamic crowned by the state visit in October that aimed to "write a new chapter in the long history between France and Morocco."

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To travel to the Moroccan capital, the First Lady abandoned the government fleet in favor of a commercial flight operated by Air France. It was also this airline that had taken her to Washington in March for a cyberbullying summit organized by Melania Trump, an event where she had also met Princess Lalla Hasnaa.