Europe 1 with AFP
The President of the Republic will not participate in the presidential debate organized by France 2 on Tuesday April 5. Valérie Pécresse, candidate Les Républicains, considers that this absence is “scandalous” and judges that the public service could not “be complicit” in this “evasion”.
Valérie Pécresse judged “scandalous” the absence of Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday evening at the debate organized by France 2, and believes that the public service could not “be complicit” in this “evasion”. “It is scandalous this new evasion of the President of the Republic a few days before the ballot,” the candidate Les Républicains told journalists on Tuesday when she got off the plane which brought her back from Guadeloupe.
The Society of Journalists of France 2 regrets the choice of Emmanuel Macron
“While finally the French are interested in this campaign, not coming to be questioned by public service journalists seems to me an absolutely unacceptable avoidance,” she added.
“We finally want to debate his calamitous record, his zig-zag political line, his project for France” and “the public service channel must demand this debate”, she declared, believing that “the public service cannot be complicit in this evasion”.
The Society of Journalists of France 2 deeply regretted on Monday the choice “that it does not understand” of Emmanuel Macron not to participate in the program Élysée 2022. His entourage, him, put forward “problems of agenda”, recalling that the candidate has already participated in public service broadcasts.