PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of encouraging binge drinking after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse's rugby players after they clinched the domestic league title
Video on social media shows the president being handed a bottle of Corona in the Toulouse changing room after the end of the game at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday , which Macron watched from the VIP enclosure.
"Toxic masculinity in political leadership in one image," tweeted Sandrine Rousseau, an MP for the Greens party. But like most French presidents, he is frequently seen with a glass of wine in hand, and he once claimed he drank a glass at lunch and another in the evening.He has given fervent backing to France's famed wine industry, even blocking attempts by public health authorities to promote the"Dry January" concept - turning the first month of the year into four weeks of alcohol abstinence.
"In this case, he's associating sport, parties and the consumption of alcohol in a context of virile peer pressure where everyone drinks a bit too much," he said.
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