“I am against these people”

Eddy Mitchell has changed his tune: if in the past the crooner did not vote in elections, now he makes it a point of honor to go to the polls. At the microphone of France Inter this October 22, the 82-year-old singer, who rarely expresses himself on politics, gave his clear point of view…

Eddy Mitchell: “I am against these people”

Eddy Mitchell was honest about his political opinion, facing Léa Salamé on France Inter. “I am against the National Front, against these people, so I vote“. But the interpreter of The last session hardly appreciates the current political landscape. “I believe that there are parties that got involved, which are not extraordinary anyway (…) People don’t change, it’s the environment that changes, it’s because we pit them against each other“, he explained.

However, for Johnny Hallyday’s friend, make no mistake, life was not necessarily “better before“!”There was the Algerian war (…) and De Gaulle who completely pissed us off and who forced us young people to join the army. Because when we did our military service, we also went to Algeria, and it was serious“, he lambasted.

Eddy Mitchell, cash on politics: “If he’s left-wing, I’m a priest…”

Until a few years ago, voting was not on Eddy Mitchell’s list of priorities. In 2022, during the legislative elections, the artist, for example, revealed on the set of Daily that he had not gone to the polls: “I don’t trust all these antics“.

In 2016, when François Hollande was President of the Republic and Manuel Valls was Prime Minister, the interpreter of No Boogie Woogie had agreed to give his opinion on politics. “My heart swings to the left. But which left? If Hollande and Valls are left-wing, I am a priest“, he said to Sunday Newspaper. As for the National Rally, which still called itself the National Front at the time, it declared: “They try to give themselves a respectable image, no one is fooled. Did they fire the father? A great deal. It’s in the genes“.