A refusal that got people talking. To understand the controversy, we must return to the year 2022, presidential year. The second round of the presidential election will take place between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. The teams then begin to think about organizing the famous debate between the two rounds which can be decisive for one candidate or the other. And against all expectations, Jordan Bardella, at the time right-hand man of the leader of the National Rally, had made it known on the set of Time for the pros that Marine Le Pen did not want Anne-Sophie Lapix to host this evening. “There are proposals which are made by the two channels which traditionally organize the debate, that is to say TF1, France 2. And then, by mutual agreement with the candidates’ teams, that is to say – say Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, we are negotiating the organization of the debate. Marine Le Pen does not want Anne-Sophie Lapix to moderate the debate because there is such a bias, and Anne-Sophie Lapix, whom I respect as a journalist, cannot hide her hostility towards Marine Le Pen every time she receives her” he said to Pascal Praud. To justify his remarks, Jordan Bardella then clarified that Emmanuel Macron shared this opinion.
Caroline Roux: “I am very uncomfortable with this way of doing things”
Eventually, these are Gilles Bouleau And Léa Salamé who had been in charge of the animation. Long shunned by politicians, Anne-Sophie Lapix then received them in her news. So is the hatchet buried between Emmanuel Macron and France Télévisions? Nothing is less sure. In any case, during all this media turmoil, Anne-Sophie Lapix had been able to count on the unfailing support of her management, therefore of Delphine Ernotte, but also of many of her colleagues. Support reiterated this Friday January 26, 2024 by Caroline Roux, journalist from C in the air. In an interview given to TV Cinema Obsshe returned to Emmanuel Macron’s refusal: “I am very uncomfortable with this way of doing things. I don’t understand how a head of state can challenge a journalist. The media have the freedom to send their star journalist”, she declared at first. She then recognized the difficulty for a journalist to interview a head of state: “It’s a special exercise. You must be pugnacious and at the same time respect the function. You must carefully gauge the tone and the rhythm because you are not facing a simple elected official who has an opinion: the President represents a part of what we all are, of what the nation is.”