Five years ago, journalists Nathalie Saint-Cricq and Christophe Jakubyszyn were responsible for leading the debate between two rounds, which opposed Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. For the return match, on April 20, it will be Gilles Bouleau and Léa Salamé who will question them for 2h30.
Special device
This is what TF1 news director Thierry Thuillier said in an interview with Puremedias.com. While the previous Le Pen-Macron meeting had lasted 2h40 – punctuated by the now famous sentence “They are there, in the countryside, in the cities” – he explained “This will be the great decisive debate of this presidential election with many themes to be addressed. It will therefore take time“.
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See you at 9 p.m. on TF1 and France 2, as well as on all the news channels continuously. A special device has also been installed at the Plaine Saint Denis, where the opponents will meet. The debate will take placein a studio called the Lendit“, reveals Thierry Thuillier. And to add: “We will not have a priori a single table. We are heading to three separate desks: one for the journalists and another for each of the candidates“.
Bye bye Anne-Sophie Lapix
And it will be without Anne-Sophie Lapix, to whom this cap initially fell, being at the animation of the 8 p.m. news on France 2, like her counterpart from TF1, Gilles Bouleau. Due to her interview a little too muscular, the public service journalist was excluded from this great meeting by both camps. See you in 5 years?
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