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An affable president
Chairing the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the allocation of digital terrestrial television (DTT) frequencies means seeing all the media and political elite parade by. Headliners from C8 and CNews (several times sanctioned by the audiovisual police), big media bosses, like Vincent Bolloré and Rodolphe Saadé, or former ministers of culture: Quentin Bataillon has invited them all. The president conducted the hearings without losing his smile. A performance considered not really pugnacious by many observers. Others saw calm and control. As for Cyril Hanouna, the day after his appearance before the commission, he assured during his show, “TPMP”, that the elected official was ” great “. The discussions were also marked by tensions with the commission’s rapporteur, the “rebellious” Aurélien Saintoul. During the hearing of Rachida Dati, on March 21, Quentin Bataillon did not hesitate to remove the microphone from his colleague whom he accused of establishing “a negative climate”.
An early political figure
The young man was born in 1993, in Feurs, a small town in the Loire, where his father, Patrick, runs a chocolate factory. But it was into the pot of politics that Quentin Bataillon fell. Elected to the municipal council of Feurs at the age of 21, he won, in 2022, the first constituency of the Loire during the legislative elections, under the Renaissance label. Since then, the elected official has taken care of his local roots. This winter, he mobilized in favor of the employees of the Casino distribution group, which has undergone a financial restructuring and whose head office is in Saint-Etienne. A ” priority “, he assures. He launched the Casino collective, in order to ensure that employment is maintained in the region. But the initiative did not materialize.
A secondary character in the Bygmalion affair
After studying communications, in April 2012, during the presidential campaign, he completed an internship at the Bygmalion agency. Spotted by Bastien Millot, its founder, he wrote leaflets and professions of faith for the UMP candidates vying for the legislative elections. He then became a parliamentary assistant to MEP Françoise Grossetête (UMP) before working for Jérôme Lavrilleux, elected to the European Parliament in May 2014. This recruitment sparked a little controversy in his region, with the opposition accusing him of having joined Jérôme Lavrilleux then entangled in the Bygmalion scandal. The former deputy director of Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign had just recognized the existence of a system of false invoices. Quentin Bataillon denied any access to information related to this case and was not prosecuted by the courts.
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