"Balance your post": why Mélenchon does not want Naulleau

"Some say to me:

How can you get there

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Me, I go where I meet people.

I do not have a priori.

Moreover, the first politician who was on a Cyril Hanouna program was me, two or three years ago

(Editor's note: in May 2013, on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”)

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These words are those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in a video posted on Twitter this Tuesday.

He is promoting his participation in the next "Balance your post", scheduled this Thursday evening at 9.15pm on C8.

A nice blow for Cyril Hanouna, who has to face tough competition.

“Faced with the debate between Gérald Darmanin and Marine Le Pen on France 2, we absolutely needed a headliner.

And we found Mélenchon ”, rejoices a relative of the host-producer of C8.

But at what cost?

If he has "no a priori", as he says, the leader of La France Insoumise has conditions.

With his team, it was he who, for example, validated which columnists will be on the set: Yann Moix, Laurence Sailliet, Karim Zeribi, Agathe Auproux, Bernard Laporte, Geoffroy Lejeune as well as the former LFI Raquel Garrido.

And who won't be there.

🚨 Before meeting you tonight for the face to face with @JLMelenchon live in @BalanceTonPost I have a message for you!

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- Cyril Hanouna (@Cyrilhanouna) February 11, 2021

That's how Eric Naulleau found himself on the sidelines.

Contrary to usual, this was not planned on the first sequence, devoted to the 2022 presidential candidate who will intervene on the separatism law, police violence, the management of the Covid, purchasing power and the 6th Republic.

An exceptional request that Cyril Hanouna, knowing that the information was going to leak, formalized on Twitter: “All the columnists will be there, except one.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not want Eric Naulleau to be there.

It was his only condition, we will ask him why.

"Eric Zemmour's accomplice since" We are not lying "must still take control of the second part, but once Jean-Luc Mélenchon is gone and to deal with the wave ... of cold.

Internal tensions

“No wonder, Naulleau spends his time typing on La France Insoumise, slips one of his comrades on the air.

What shocks me is that Hanouna gave her consent.

It's anything like a request, but it's not better to let Mélenchon do it.

Internally, these requirements caused tensions.

“Naulleau is right to be angry, assures a regular at C8 sets.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is in a period when he wants to appear calm.

But there, we roll out the red carpet for him.

Without real opponent.

"And another added:" Eric Naulleau will get over it.

Just as Raquel Garrido recovered when she was not invited to face the ministers of The Republic on the march.

So much for the atmosphere.

At H20, which manufactures “Touche pas à mon poste” and “Balance your post”, we were still assured this Thursday morning that “Mélenchon did not set any conditions for his arrival, apart from the number of people around him on site. »And that Eric Naulleau was« never angry ».

As for his presence or not on the air, Lionel Stan, the managing director of the production company, repeated over and over: “Look at C8 at 9:15 pm, you'll see!

"Mélenchon side, we also returned the ball to Cyril Hanouna:" As for the columnists, it is the responsibility of the production.

“Also contacted, Eric Naulleau did not respond to our requests.

In October, Mélenchon had already set the conditions for his participation in "You have the floor" on France 2. An hour before the show, he had asked that Olivier Véran leave the set so as not to have to debate with him.

What the public service had not accepted, as Léa Salamé and Thomas Sotto had explained on the air.

"This is a condition that was never discussed," said the latter.

We established very clear rules with him.

It is obvious that we keep the editorial control of the program.

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