The astronaut did not name the candidate who will have his vote in the second round of the presidential election in France. But his words leave little room for doubt.
Thomas Pesquet confided in Télématin that he knew for whom he had voted in the second round of the presidential election, on April 24. The astronaut did not name the candidate. “I have no right to tell you, he told journalist Thomas Sotto, who questioned him on the subject. As an agent of the space agency, we have a duty of reserve.”
Nevertheless, Thomas Pesquet made it very clear that Emmanuel Macron, a convinced European, would get his vote. “My conviction is made. We have European values of openness, not closure”, he explained. An unambiguous message, received 5/5 by his interlocutor Thomas Sotto.