“I’m going to have to give my voice,” predicts David Pujadas before the debate between the main candidates on LCI

The TF1 group’s news channel is the first to bring together the eight favorite list leaders in the polls, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. An exercise that can turn into cacophony.

Arriving on LCI in August 2017, David Pujadas, who hosts the show “24h Pujadas, l’info en question” every day between 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., is preparing to host, Tuesday May 21 at 8:30 p.m., the first televised debate bringing together the eight main candidates in the European elections which will take place on June 9. No more Plexiglas walls and overly formal desks, the eight speakers will be comfortably seated on armchairs in a more cozy atmosphere.Club“. An ideal configuration for journalist David Pujadas: “VSWhat I like is that the people who are debating can almost touch each other and that in a certain way, we enter a TV show like we would enter a living room“.

The eight candidates (out of 37 in total) who will oppose represent the parties currently leading the polls: Manon Aubry for La France insoumise, Jordan Bardella for the National Rally, François-Xavier Bellamy for Les Républicains, Léon Deffontaines for the Communist Party French, Raphaël Glucksmann for the Socialist Party-Place publique, Valérie Hayer for Renaissance, Marion Maréchal for Reconquête and Marie Toussaint for Les Écologues-EELV. “This is the first time that the eight heads of the list will be present. These are moments of democracy, it is important to mark the occasion“, he confides.

The former presenter of the 8 p.m. news on France 2 had already served as a host in several political or society programs such as “Des mots et des acts” and “L’ Political broadcast”. David Pujadas notes the youth of the candidates he will receive: “There are two who are 28 years old. The others are in their thirties, except the dean Raphaël Glucksmann, who is 44 years old. They are very young, they are very dissipated“.”So, I think I’m going to have to speak up. But I still count on their civic-mindedness in a certain way, to think of the viewers“, he continues.

The debates will be “really focused on European issues. We journalists are always the first to regret that domestic, national issues take precedence over European issues.“, but he concludes: “it will be difficult not to mention New Caledonia or the conflict in the Middle East“.