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Macron to welcome Rihanna at the Elysée after tweet
President Emmanuel Macron is to welcome R&B singer Rihanna to the Elysée after the star sent him a tweet about education.
The singer, who is from Barbados, is well-known for her music career, but is also the founder of humanitarian organisation the Clara Lionel Foundation, and has been an ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education since 2016.
In a tweet on June 23, Rihanna asked Macron if he would “commit to #FundEducation?”, and had previously tweeted that “the decisions of our 20 most powerful leaders can change the future of millions at the G20 summit in Hamburg”. The summit took place on 7-8 July.
🇫🇷 bonjour @EmmanuelMacron, will France commit to #FundEducation?
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 23, 2017
Now, the singer will meet the President at the Elysée, in a meeting at 17h on Wednesday July 26. U2 singer Bono will also attend, in his capacity as head of his non-governmental organisation One, which works to reduce poverty and preventable diseases.
It is not the first time Rihanna has used the global social network to garner support for her causes.
In 2016, she tweeted then-President Hollande with a similar question, who replied, also on Twitter, that he would send “a detailed response” and that “education was his first priority”.
This year, Rihanna also tweeted similar questions to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, and also to Argentine president Mauricio Macri.