From this Monday, April 15, a new constraint applies for candidates - and the audiovisual media - that of fairness of speaking time. Until the June 9 vote, television and radio stations must calculate the time devoted to each political party.
“The rules are vague and that is above all the problem,” says Manon Aubry, MEP and head of the list for the Insoumis. To compensate, theInsoumis will deploy in public meetings to “pace” the campaign, trying to occupy as much as possible another strategic area: that of the regional daily press. More optimism on the EELV side, where we are satisfied with the fairness, which should allow a “rebalancing” in their favor, says Marie Toussaint, communist Léon Deffontaines. The Regulatory Authority for Audiovisually and Digital Communication (Arcom) expects the media to ensure that the time allotted to each list is correlated to their political weight ( depending on their scores in previous European and presidential elections, as well as opinion surveys).