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		</div><p>French President Emmanuel Macron wants to formalise the role of the president&#8217;s wife amid controversy over the cost and status of the first lady. The president&#8217;s office is preparing a formal communication in coming days, Brigitte Macron&#8217;s office said. During his presidential campaign, the 39-year-old centrist promised more &#8220;transparency&#8221; on the issue. France&#8217;s first lady does not have an official status.</p>
<p>As the president&#8217;s popularity drops in polls, more than 270,000 people have signed a petition in the past few weeks against the plan to grant a tax-funded budget to finance his wife&#8217;s activities.<br />
Mrs Macron has an office at the Elysee Palace and a staff composed of two advisers and two secretaries as well as bodyguards. Publicly, she is mostly seen at her husband&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>The status of the president&#8217;s partner appears to be a sensitive issue in France following a series of scandals in the past few decades, including Mr Macron&#8217;s predecessor Francois Hollande&#8217;s complex private life. There has not been a presidential spouse in the Elysee Palace since 2012, when Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni left.</p>
<p>Mr Hollande entered office in 2012 with his girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler at his side, but she left him after a tabloid magazine exposed his secret affair with actress Julie Gayet in 2014.Gayet has never publicly appeared by Mr Hollande&#8217;s side. Mr Macron once said he wants to end &#8220;French hypocrisy&#8221; about the status of presidential spouses. The person living with the president &#8220;must be able to play a role and be recognised for that role&#8221; but would not be paid for it, he said before his election.</p>
<p>He created an inseparable team with his wife during his presidential campaign, a move more often seen on US political stages than in France. Mrs Macron, 64, a former teacher at Mr Macron&#8217;s high school, attended most of her husband&#8217;s rallies. The president does not hide that she is also his close political adviser.</p>
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