“Abolishing the TV license fee does not mean that we are going to abolish the public audiovisual budget”, specifies Gabriel Attal

“We are going to propose removing the TV license fee, which does not mean that we are going to remove the budget for public broadcasting”, explains Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Wednesday, June 29 on France Inter, the day after a strike at Radio France and France Televisions. As Minister of the Budget, he will be responsible for carrying out this measure and says to himself “very open to discussions” with parliamentarians.

A “dated” and “not very fair” tax

“What we want to eliminate is not a budget, it’s a tax”, he says. Gabriel Attal describes this tax as “dated”, since it is based on having a television at home, which “fewer and fewer French people say they have” and “not very fair” because it is the same for everyone regardless of income level. According to him, this commitment made during the electoral campaign “will make it possible to return 138 euros to 27 million French people”.

“We will give guarantees of visibility over the coming years on the public broadcasting budget, guarantees of independence of course.”

Gabriel Attal

at France Inter

The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts promises that public broadcasting “will be able to continue to count on a stable budget which will not be able to change during the year”.

“We want to continue to allow the French to spend less while continuing to allow them to be better informed and it is in particular public broadcasting that allows them to be better informed and I am very attached to public broadcasting”he concludes.