(ANSA) - PARIS, APRIL 13 - Marine Le Pen's decision to refuse accreditation for a press conference to some journalists of the Quotidien broadcast - one of the most popular programs in France, especially among young and very young people - denounces a form of "authoritarian drift" by the Rassemblement National challenger in the ballot for the Elysée on April 24: Emmanuel Macron said today, speaking on France 2. The program, presented every evening by Yann Barthès, is broadcast on TMC.
This morning, during a mission to a factory in Gennevilliers, near Paris, Le Pen returned to defend the controversy that broke out yesterday and responded to Macron's accusations.
"All this shows a certain nervousness on the part of the president - he said -. Macron obviously does not have enough arguments against me, that he concentrates rather on the basic issues of my program".
The refusal of accreditation, he continued, concerned "only" Quotidien.
According to the far-right candidate, "Quotidien is not a broadcast of information or journalists. Quotidien is a broadcast of entertainment, which is sometimes very spirited," she said.
Already yesterday, Le Pen had declared: "There are so many people that we have to accredit that we prefer to accredit journalists rather than entertainment programs".
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