As every year, with the approach of the Miss France election (expected on December 11 in Caen), the event is debated. There are the supporters and those who are fiercely against. On October 18, 2021, the association Osez le feminisme also brought legal action against the company for “sexism” and “violation of the right to work”. A case that makes a lot of noise and was a topic of discussion on the political program Facing the Territories (TV5Monde) this Thursday, October 21, 2021. The host Cyril Viguier received the Minister for Gender Equality Elisabeth Moreno on its set, which evoked the controversial criteria imposed by the company Miss France on its candidates.
“I think Miss France is part of our traditions, of our culture. What questions me are the rules, which I find completely has been“, she said. And to add:”I appeal to Miss France. Why can’t a Miss France be ironic? Why is a candidate for Miss France who poses topless to fight against breast cancer is excluded? Why couldn’t a Miss France be a mom? JI think the rules are completely a thing of the past and it is high time for them to change“.
The new president of the company Miss France, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, reacted this week to these questions with the Parisian. “Scandalized” by the accusations against the event, the producer defended the competition, finding a justification for each of the rules. However, she admitted to being ready to make some changes, such as putting less emphasis on the parades, which she considers too similar to those of “Victoria’s Secret” or even more highlighting the values of the Miss and the regions.
Facing the Territories, the new political meeting
Élisabeth Moreno in turn had the floor in Facing the Territories, a few weeks after its launch. It was on September 9 that the show found its time slot every Thursday at 9:30 am on TV5Monde and online on partner media Ouest France and Nice Matin. Cyril Viguier thus wishes to offer a new political meeting to the French on the sidelines of the next presidential elections. “We want to ask questions that concern people’s daily lives“, he declared in the columns of TV Magazine.
Each week, the facilitator receives a personality from the political world, who must therefore react to the burning questions of the regions of the country. He surrounded himself with the editor-in-chief of Ouest France, François-Xavier Lefranc, the editorial director of Nice matin, Cyril Boutier as well as Silvia Garcia, journalist at TV5Monde. Cyril Viguier has already invited Xavier Bertrand, Prime Minister Jean Castex, Valérie Pecresse and Annick Girardin.
Facing the Territories, every Thursday at 9:30 am on TV5Monde and online at West France and nice morning.