The book The strange victory: Macron II, the secret story, published on June 8, unveiled by Louis Hausalter and Agathe Lambret spoke of the “tense relationship” between Emmanuel Macron and Anne-Sophie Lapix. In particular because of the “editorial choices” which he did not like. “He, the hypermnesiac, has not forgotten (…) for example, when Anne-Sophie Lapix’s 8 p.m. newspaper relegated her speech to the American Congress to the end of the program in April 2018”they wrote.
Challenged by Macron and Le Pen?
On Wednesday April 20, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clashed during the debate between the two rounds of the 2022 presidential election, won by the outgoing president. The two candidates had been refereed by Gilles Bouleau, for TF1 and Léa Salamé, for France 2. The name of Anne-Sophie Lapix would have been dismissed by the two finalists in the ballot. “Marine Le Pen does not want Anne-Sophie Lapix to lead the debate”said the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella on the set of Time for the pros. “She can’t hide her hostility towards Marine Le Pen each time she receives her”he said, adding “even Emmanuel Macron does not want Anne-Sophie Lapix to take the debate”.
For his part, the husband of Brigitte Macron had declared on the set of C to you on France 5had denied this information. “The two candidates were consulted, for my part, I have never challenged any journalist or any director. Besides, sorting out journalists, I consider that it is democratically a problem (…) I have not challenged any colleague of yours”.
Laurent Guimier, director of information for the France Télévisions group in the columns of the Figarohad given the reasons for this choice. “It seemed natural to me to offer this role to Léa Salamé, the embodiment of the political interview par excellence in the public service and who led the Élysée 2022 program alongside me throughout the first round campaign”, he justifies. According to him, this “setback comes not from a hypothetical refusal of a name, but from organizational problems”.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier