The RN boycotts BFMTV, unhappy with the choice of the journalist who will follow the news of the party

The leadership of the far-right party has given the order to no longer accept invitations from BFMTV to protest against the recruitment of a journalist for the Quotidien program on TMC.

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Marine Le Pen, National Rally MP, on the set of BFM TV, February 3, 2019. (ARNAUD DUMONTIER / MAXPPP)

“It’s not up to the parties to decide which journalists are attached to their monitoring”, wrote Saturday, May 27 on Twitter the general manager of BFMTV Marc-Olivier Fogiel. The continuous news TV channel is indeed the subject of a boycott by the National Rally, France Inter learned on Friday from several elected representatives of the far-right party, confirming information from the Politico media. The RN accuses BFM of having recruited a journalist from the Quotidien program to follow party news.

“The RN is considered with as much attention by our editorial staff as the other main parties in our country”assures Marc-Olivier Fogiel defending “a competent and experienced journalist”. Sophie Dupont dealt with national political news for Daily, a program with which the RN has very tense relations. Since the 2022 presidential campaign, the far-right party has refused to accredit Quotidien journalists.


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