Nearly 26 million viewers watched the speech by President Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening on TF1, France 2 and M6, which constitutes a new record for a presidential statement, according to figures from Médiamétrie released on Tuesday morning.
These audience data do not include the scores of the news channels, which will be known at the end of the morning.
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