General de Gaulle had made it a weapon of political communication, others are fleeing this perilous exercise which imposed itself as a necessary step in the Fifth Republic: the presidential press conference. This controlled and yet inflammable face-to-face, this truth of the Head of State summoned to respond to the representatives of the Fourth Estate.
Emmanuel Macron visibly balks, he is organizing the second press conference of his term on Thursday, only two in five years, and specifying that it relates to the French presidency of the European Union. What does this solemn moment of address to journalists mean? Who does the president speak to when he answers the press? What place do staging, decorum and acting?
Laetitia Krupa and Gaspard Gantzer talk about it with Fabrice d’Almeida, historian and professor. And to find out how it was under Nicolas Sarkozy, look back at this period with his ex-director of communication, Franck Louvrier, now mayor Les Républicains de la Baule.
For “the History of Elsewhere” direction Russia, because the specialist of the press conference is Vladimir Poutine: he does one per year at the end of the year, he already has fifteen to his credit. These are shows, each time with more than 1,000 journalists, an indefinite duration, sometimes more than four hours … And, obviously, the master of the Kremlin already has the questions.
“L’Info en plus” by Gaspard Gantzer takes us behind the scenes of the campaign of the newly elected candidate for Congress Les Républicains, Valérie Pécresse.
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