“Today, when you are no longer invited, Well, you can not pretend,” justified the member in front of local elected officials, on Tuesday.
Le Monde
It may have drawn a radical conclusion of the great oral organized Monday, March 14 on TF1, without participating. Jean Lassalle (resist!), Consider withdrawing from the race at the Elysée, irritated not to be invited to political emissions, he said on Tuesday, March 15 at a hearing on decentralization before the association Mayors from France (AMF), the association of the departments of France (ADF) and the regions of France. “Yes, I strongly consider it at the time that it is,” said the member of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the aftermath of a first television evening where eight of the twelve presidential candidates faced their ideas and to which he had not been invited.
“Today, when you are no longer invited, Well, you can not pretend,” he added, suggesting that he would not be invited to “two other unfortunate Debates “planned in the coming weeks, with reference to the deadlines planned on BFM-TV and France 2 on 23rd and 31st of March.
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The anger of other non-invited candidates
Responding to the declarations of the candidate who preceded it at the hearing, Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the national rally (NR), judged “absolutely inadmissible (…) that at the end of the obtaining of these Sponsorships, there are candidates who continue to be treated like the others, without elsewhere we understand that the criteria that can be chosen “. “I hope that Jean Lassalle will remain in this race to the presidential election and that the different media that organize debates will change behavior with regard to the other candidates who have also been ruled out”, a- she added.
The four missing candidates of Monday’s show did not fail to criticize the choice of TF1. “There are no great or small candidates, as there are no small or great French,” Nicolas Dupont-Aignan had (Standing France), Thursday, March 10, on France 5.
“To be a candidate, it is necessary to pass the obstacle of the 500 sponsorships. But to participate in the presidential debate on TF1, we must pass the obstacle of Bouygues [group owner of the chain]. It’s like in The companies, it is the boss who decides! “, brought Nathalie Arthaud, Friday, March 11, on Twitter .
At the end of his hearing before the main associations of elected, Tuesday, Philippe Poutou (new anticapitalist party) was Goguenard: “Everyone was invited here, and with the same time. It’s seen that it’s not Bouygues who runs the AMF, it was not the same rules on TF1 last night. “