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Léa Salamé will take the reins of the 20 hours of France 2 at the start of the school year. One question arises: how to manage this information crossroads and its relationship with Raphaël Glucksmann, potential presidential candidate. Others were in this case.
“He obviously never held my pen!” Nor I, by the way. »For his first interview after her appointment at the head of the 20 hours of France 2, Léa Salamé sweeps the questions: her union with Raphaël Glucksmann will not pose any problem in her mission. “He has been a deputy for the age of six years and that has not prevented me from presenting” the political program “for five years, of doing the interview of July 14, the debate of the in-between-tours in 2022 or to have all the policies in the microphone in France Inter”, she defends herself in the gallery on Sunday.
Raphaël Glucksmann, who presents his program for France on Monday for a potential candidacy in 2027 Monday, has been in a relationship with the journalist since 2015 and they had a little boy together, Gabriel. If the public square boss was to embark on the presidential race, Léa Salamé assures that she would withdraw from the antenna, as was the case in the last two European elections. “Times have changed and the French, including political, are much more feminist than you might think,” she believes.
While Christine Ockrent has always refused to “abdicate” – she is in a relationship with Bernard Kouchner, several times minister -, many journalists have left the screens to let their half shine on the political scene.
Anne Sinclair, case law
Flagship journalist of TF1, the Queen of the political interview, Anne Sinclair, was in the 1990s at the head of the most seen magazine of the PAF: “7 out of 7”. Every Sunday, she goes to the grill the politico-artistic world and wins many scoops. In parallel, she lives with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, rising star of the Socialist Party. While her husband was Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade in 1991, Anne Sinclair continues to present her program; But when he arrived at the head of a big Bercy in 1997, she left the antenna, creating a previous one. “I found it very decent to continue to host a very watched political program,” she explains during her last, on July 6, 1997. Behind the scenes, the truth is a little different: the audiences of “7 out of 7” were largely down. The host in a mohair sweater (she finally only worn five in 500 programs) will never return as a political journalist, but creates a precedent.
Béatrice Schoënberg, the balancingist
In 2002, when Jean-Louis Borloo arrived at the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Béatrice Schoënberg has animated the news of France 2 for five years. Several months later, he is of public notoriety that one of the most prominent ministers of Jacques Chirac and the journalist are together-they will marry in 2005. She keeps her chair until 2007, despite the boiling Schoënberg unassailable on the facts, but in fact a question of principle. Paroxysm of embarrassment: Friday, December 16, 2006, day of the Congress of the Radical Party, David Pujadas must one day of Rab to question… Jean-Louis Borloo and not put Schoënberg in difficulty. The situation is untenable: her husband is an active support from Nicolas Sarkozy – he will become number 2 of the government. Patrick de Carolis, boss of France Télévisions at the time, was relieved: “Public service must be unassailable and therefore exemplary”. Exile must be temporary – the journalist’s return is announced after the presidential election. She will not come back: Laurent Delahousse has shipped her place and has since been the holder of the mandate.
Marie Drucker presses pause
At the same time, another soap is played out. Marie Drucker lives a love story with François Baroin while facilitating in the evening 3, the news meeting of France 3. The link is revealed by a newspaper. “I share the life of a public man […]. A newspaper deliberately took the side of exhibiting my private life. […] From the perspective of the presidential electoral campaign, I myself asked to temporarily put myself on leave of the presentation of “evening 3” when the time comes, while continuing to work on other projects on the air. I hold above all, as I have always done, to separate my professional life from my personal life. I also want my freedom and I hear that it is respected, ”she said in a statement. She finds her chair from the finished countryside. The union with François Baroin ended in 2008 and the journalist became Laurent Delahousse’s Joker.
Thomas Sotto, the male example
Sign that times have changed? Men can also abandon their function. As a couple with the Communication Advisor by Prime Minister Jean Castex, Minister of Sports, Thomas Sotto, then Joker by Laurent Delahousse at 20 hours of France 2 on weekends and presenter of Élysée 2022, the political meeting of the chain, decides to withdraw. “A personal event, which I do not wish to develop because it concerns my private life, pushes me to make a simple and clear decision: the time of the presidential campaign, I chose to put myself behind” Élysée 2022 ” […] It is a difficult decision and, in a way, quite unfair. But I have to take into account our time, which has become very violent and which tends to hysterize, “he explains explaining an” inevitable “decision to keep a” bond of trust with the French “.
For the moment, it was always journalists who have abandoned their function, never politicians. Proof that times haven’t changed.
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