Return to the fold for Ruth Elkrief.
Less than three months after the announcement of her surprise departure from BFMTV, of which she had been a leading figure for fifteen years, the 60-year-old political journalist will arrive on May 1 on LCI, the non-stop news channel of the TF1 group.
She was one of the first faces when it was created in 1994. Before taking over the antenna that it had abandoned since January 8, it will make an appearance in the editorial staff next week to begin to take its marks.
Interview.
You said, “In my career, I took risks.
»Is arriving on LCI in front of other strong personalities one of them?
RUTH ELKRIEF.
Yes.
I came to look for the risk.
For me, it is both a return to this house and a new page, because LCI has changed, is home to strong personalities.
I have to find my place with my style, my originality, my energy, my way of getting information.
I feel like I'm starting over and I'm lucky that people can still want me.
Did you not feel loved on BFMTV since you lost your daily life at 7 p.m. in summer 2020?
I am addicted to everyday life.
But, nothing belongs to you.
I lived for 15 years a magnificent adventure at BFMTV.
However, I felt that my story was over there.
Since the announcement of my departure, I have had different proposals.
That of the bosses of TF1-LCI convinced me.
Put myself in danger during a presidential election, it was a great challenge.
Was it related to a disagreement with the new boss Marc-Olivier Fogiel?
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With Marc-Olivier Fogiel, we have known each other for a very long time.
He's a very good journalist.
It is not only on personal matters that we make important decisions.
I left BFMTV because a cycle was over.
It took months to mature in my mind.
I was sad to leave an editorial office to which I am attached, but I am proud to have left on good terms.
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How are you going to make your place at LCI on May 1st?
I am very happy to find David Pujadas, my friend, and other journalists with whom I have already worked.
I'm feeling good.
We have a meeting next week to see how I will intervene on the air at first: in a small format or in debates, the regional election evening if they take place?
And, at the start of the school year, I will have my place with a daily.
What will this daily look like?
And in which box?
It will revolve around an interview with the woman or man of the day and a campaign meeting.
It's up to the bosses to announce where it will be in the grid!
The idea is both to have daily reactivity and to mount blows.
During the presidential campaign, I will be able to go to meetings to question candidates.
Being on the move is kind of my brand.
We will also have special evenings, debates, we will perhaps invent new formats.
How do you imagine this presidential campaign?
It will be fascinating and will be placed under the theme of gravity, because we go from crisis to crisis, between the attacks and the pandemic.
She will be unique and she asks a lot of questions: will the outgoing president reiterate his hold-up of 2017, will Marine Le Pen achieve her goal?
Will a Republican or right-wing candidate find his place?
Will there be newcomers, will the left manage to unite, will environmentalists succeed in emerging as in other countries?
Will Emmanuel Macron be a victim of the management of the pandemic?
Who do you dream of welcoming first when political leaders are scarce?
To play politics today is to take a criminal and personal risk.
It is discouraging.
Above all, it is necessary to restore the bond of trust between the French and politics when it is undoubtedly damaged, as in many countries.
The pandemic will leave its mark and I have heard majority leaders wonder if the French will not want to zap them.
There, I would like to interview Emmanuel Macron and ask him impertinent questions, for example on vaccines: how Europe and France could they underestimate the stake?
Absent from the antenna since January 8, will you be nervous when you find her?
I can not wait to find the antenna that I miss and the news is a form of addiction.
But I will have the jitters of hell, as always!
With confinement and this diet, I lived apart for these 5 months.
It was a time that I had to take.
It allowed me to recharge my batteries, to take a step back.
I read a lot, I wrote.
It made me feel good.
