If it's not a boycott, at least temporarily... It looks like it! The message sent by Sylvain Maillard to his troops concerning the line of conduct to adopt vis-à-vis the "Journal du dimanche", since the arrival at its head of the far-right journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, is in any case clear and clear. "Let's look at the editorial line of the next editions to see if it is as worrying as that of this first issue. In the meantime, I ask you not to participate in articles of this Journal du Dimanche, "writes the boss of the deputies Marcheurs on their common loop, "Deputies Renaissance".
A response to the controversy triggered by the interview given last Sunday to the weekly by the Secretary of State for the City, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache. The latter provoked an uproar, coupled with a wave of internal protests, by participating in the first edition of the weekly since the historic strike of the editorial office. And, without warning either the Élysée or Matignon.
"You can talk about everything but not with just anyone"
"A", "a political mistake", we heard in high places, which came to hit the official line carried the day before by the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak. The Macron camp was then accused by the left of "accelerating the trivialization" of the newspaper.
"We can talk about everything but not with anyone," reacted in the aftermath, Monday, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune. While many members of the majority proclaimed their indignation, on the loops or in private.
Last Sunday, Sylvain Maillard had already distanced himself from the weekly, after an article on Macronist ambitions for the Parisian municipal elections. "I am quoted extensively in an article in the JDD this Sunday. For information, this interview was made in December 2022, "he had specified on the loop "Renaissance Deputies", to clarify that there was "no intervention of (his) part in the JDD".