It is the collateral victim of the great televised raout of Emmanuel Macron, broadcast this Wednesday.
Valérie Pécresse, who was to be the special guest of the show “Face à BFM” that day, saw her invitation… postponed.
“When the president speaks, our DNA is to debrief, to extend, justifies the continuous information chain.
We therefore preferred to postpone to keep our flexibility and react to current events.
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On the sidelines of a trip to Calais (Pas-de-Calais), the candidate LR expressed her dissatisfaction with this collapse: "We cannot have a president-candidate who is opened to television channels on demand and who, for hours, campaigned even though his opponents had to settle for five minutes of duplex to answer him.
"And to insist:" I ask the Superior council of audio-visual to restore the equality of the speaking time and the democratic fair play in this election.
The referral is being considered but not yet filed.
"The format of the interview does not change the rules in force"
At the CSA, we refuse to argue, recalling the framework in force: one third of the total speaking time is granted to the President of the Republic and to the government (the remaining two thirds are allocated to all the opposition parties and to LREM) . “The format of the interview does not change the rules in force, confirms the Superior council of audio-visual. Outside the election period (it will not open until January 1, 2022), the speaking time of the president is counted when his remarks concern the public debate. But not within the framework of its sovereign functions. "
A rather favorable framework at the top of the executive.
After a TV address on health, November 24, two hours of press conference last week on Europe and an address on the referendum in New Caledonia on Sunday, the head of state does not hesitate to occupy the media, to the chagrin of its opponents.
"This will never cover the media exposure of Eric Zemmour or Valérie Pécresse for a few days", squeaks a minister.
Before adding: “The important thing is to be in the nails of the law.
For the rest, we play politics like the others.
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