The show It’s up to you hosted on its set on Monday, April 18, 2022 Emmanuel Macron, pulverizing its audiences that evening, ahead of TMC and C8. The outgoing president attended the show broadcast live by reacting to all the subjects, even the funniest like the famous photo of him slumped on a sofa with his shirt open and his chest exposed, after his meeting in Marseille. If the atmosphere was therefore able to be friendly during this humorous sequence, it was with great seriousness that he answered the other questions of the team. In particular that on the controversy of the presentation of the debate between two rounds, an unmissable event in the presidential campaign.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her colleagues hosted on the set of It’s up to you Emmanuel Macron, outgoing president who will face Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally, in the second round. The thorny question of pensions or policies for ecology have been put on the table. The host also wanted to come back to the choice of presenters for the debate between the two rounds, broadcast on Wednesday April 20 on TF1 and France 2, with two figures from each channel. If we know that it was Gilles Bouleau, star of the JT of the first channel and Léa Salamé, specialist in public service policy who notably presented Elysee 2022 who will animate it, a controversy emerged a few days ago: Anne-Sophie Lapix having been boycotted by the leader of the RN.
Accused by her lieutenant Jordan Bardella of being too hostile to Marine Le Pen – a question about her links with Russia obviously stuck in her throat – Anne-Sophie Lapix was persona non grata to animate the debate between two rounds. According to a survey of WorldEmmanuel Macron’s entourage is not a fan of the journalist, but the leader insisted in It’s up to you on the fact that he himself has not boycotted any name: “The two candidates were consulted but for my part, I challenged no journalist or director. (…) The debate works if there is not too long a red list. I have not challenged any of your colleagues. I never sorted the journalists during my five-year term.” Addressing more specifically the journalist Patrick Cohen, present in It’s up to you : “I understood that you were on the red list, it becomes a funny exercise. I stayed in a position that we should have. The two main channels, one from the private sector, one from the public sector offer and it is the same for the producers.”
With this speech, Emmanuel Macron wishes to distinguish himself from his far-right opponent who also blacklisted Daily of its meetings. He does not mention the name of Anne-Sophie Lapix but insists on the fact that he left the control of the organization of the debate by the two channels, unique face-to-face between the two candidates, directed by Didier Froehly , big name in TV production. Léa Salamé had also reacted to this controversy at Parisianexplaining that he had the opportunity to discuss at length with his colleague: “It is not up to politicians to give journalists a good or a bad point on a TV set. (…) JI had a great pleasure working with her on Elysee 2022. She put herself in danger by agreeing to participate in this political program when she was not obliged to do so.