Having officiated successively on the antennas of TF1, M6, Canal+ And France 5Anne-Sophie Lapix is today the titular presenter of the 8 p.m. France 2. As a reminder, the former host of It’s up to you was chosen in 2017 by the management of France Télévisions, to take over from David Pujadas. Renowned for her pugnacity, especially when she questions political figures on her set, Anne-Sophie Lapix is regularly shunned by some leading politicians. Since she took over the presentation of the 8 p.m. news from France 2 during the week, the journalist has not often had the opportunity to welcome Emmanuel Macron on her set, when the President of the Republic was elected for the first time in 2017. During his first term, the Head of State has often preferred to go on the television news set of TF1, where he gave interviews to Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Gilles Bouleau. However, this does not mean that Emmanuel Macron is cold with Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Anne-Sophie Lapix on Emmanuel Macron: “Our relations are professional and peaceful”
In any case, this is what the journalist affirmed during an interview granted to the Parisian Friday, August 25, 2023. “Our relations are professional and peaceful. We nevertheless ended up receiving him during the presidential campaign, a few days before the second round”, indicated the presenter of the JT of 20h of France 2. Even if Anne-Sophie Lapix had the opportunity to receive all the candidates for the 2022 presidential election on her set, including the outgoing President, the journalist was still excluded from the debate between the two rounds in benefit of his colleague Léa Salamé. The presenter of What an era! was therefore at the controls of the duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in duet with Gilles Bouleau. “I was not the number 1 choice of the candidates. I suspected that if you asked Marine Le Pen for her opinion, she wouldn’t choose me. Several people could do it on the France 2 side and at no time did I think that I was the only legitimate one to animate this debate”, underlined Anne-Sophie Lapix.