At five days of the first round of the presidential election, the presidential president, on the move in Finistère, explained that it is “a little obliged to organize [S] we are here” to explain his absence on Tuesday evening.
Le Monde
A new refusal that does not go. Unlike the eleven other candidates for the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron refused to participate in the show “Elysee 2022” on France 2.
The Candidate President had to be interviewed on the public channel, Tuesday, April 5, with Eric Zemmour, Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot and Philippe Poutou, each turn. The other six candidates had taken part in the previous issue, March 31. But the entourage of the Head of State announced Monday that he would not participate. On the move to SPEZET, in Finistère, Emmanuel Macron returned to this refusal to participate in the show of France 2. “I went on the public service several times. I will go on France 2, I reassure you. Or Before the first round, between the two towers, “he said, explaining that it is” a little obliged to organize [s] time. [It has] less time available for the campaign than [S] competitors “.
But this refusal caused the anger of other candidates. Especially since France 2, being subject to the respect of the equality of speaking times between all the candidates, retransmestra after the issue of the extracts of the speech delivered by Emmanuel Macron during his meeting at the Defense on Saturday, April 2. ” / p>
“Derobade”
On his return from an express trip to Guadeloupe, the candidate of Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, thus tried “scandalous” the absence of Emmanuel Macron. “It’s scandalous, this new maid from the President of the Republic a few days before the ballot,” said Journalists the candidate Lr, Tuesday, on his descent from the plane that brought her back from Guadeloupe.
“While infin the French are interested in this campaign, do not come to be questioned by public service journalists seems to me an absolutely unacceptable maid,” she added. “Finally, we want to discuss its calamitous record, its zigzag political line, its project for France” and “the public service chain must require this debate,” she said, believing that “the public service Can not be an accomplice of this evasion “.
The Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo also criticized Mr. Macron for his refusal “to come on the public service, on France Télévisions” and to want to be “replaced by images of his meeting”. “You believe it’s normal, you believe that the French can accept that our democracy has deteriorated at this point?”, In particular, criticized on FranceInfo the mayor of Paris. Guest of BFM-TV this Tuesday morning, the Ecologist Candidate, Yannick Jadot, for his name denounced “a President of the Republic who refuses the debate, it’s amazing”. “It’s serious, in those moments of anxiety and anger of the French and French who are wondering about the world,” he said.
Removing the TV fee
In addition to the candidates, the Society of Journalists of France 2 also “lamented” this choice in a statement published Monday afternoon. “A six days of the first round, you refuse for the moment all the invitations of France 2. You have returned to our colleagues of several other private and public antennas,” regrets the union.
“Why do not France 2 viewers have the opportunity to hear you on their chain? You who have for project to remove the royalty, and therefore to deprive the audiovisual public of its main livelihood and Independence, why do not you answer the questions of the journalists of France 2? “, then wonders the union in his communiqué.
At its first candidate displacement on March 7 in Poissy (Yvelines), Mr. Macron had announced that he wanted to remove the audiovisual fee, if he was re-elected. “We must continue this work so that the work pays better. How to remove taxes that remain: the TV fee is one. It’s about 137 euros on average. It is consistent with the removal of the tax. Housing. You have to go to the end, “he promised.