Emmanuel Macron fails to respect dress code at G20 dinner

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The president of France Emmanuel Macron committed a fashionable diplomatic incident during one of the events of the G20 summit, in Indonesia, according to columnist Bertrand Chameroy, of the program C à Vous, of the France 5 channel. submit to a dress code at a gala dinner, but French did not respect it.

The heads of state were invited to dinner in Bali and were instructed to wear typical colored shirts with floral motifs. Most followed dress codes, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The exceptions were the French president, who came to the dinner wearing a white Western shirt, and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Mohamed bin Salmán, who did not wear the typical Indonesian shirt.

Columnist Bertrand Chameroy said on France 5’s C à Vous that perhaps Macron did not wear the typical Balinese shirt because he wanted not to look ridiculous. In 2014, former President Françoise Hollande was ridiculed for wearing traditional dress during a visit to Astana, Kazakhstan, as a sign of friendship. At the time, netizens made montages making fun of Hollande.

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