Alexandre Kouchner, a teacher at Sciences-Po, draws a critical assessment of Europe 1's new political program on Europe 1, the first of which was broadcast on Thursday evening.

ANALYSIS

No guest in majesty, debate, just the debate. That was the promise of You have the floor , the new political show. The first issue was broadcast Thursday night with Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Hauts-de-France region, as principal guest. Only 1.27 million viewers were in front of their screen to follow this new formula, a clear and clear failure. "They must, they will learn from this first," commented Friday morning on Europe 1 Alexander Kouchner, teacher at Sciences-Po. "It's difficult a first, it's always a bit complicated," tempered the one who is also editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Europeans .

"Not sure we come out of it"

For him, the result of the evening is clearly negative, on the form as on the bottom. "We must now bring the citizens of politics and we do it with journalists who are at least as disparaged as the men and women politicians themselves.It was very difficult," said Alexander Kouchner. "Not sure if it came out big, it was long, it was cacophonous, it was almost too much: 15 guests, a lot of duplicates, with two ministers, we did not really understand why. we do not know if they spoke at a time, but unfortunately, there was a lot of voice and not necessarily a lot of substance ", he summarized.

"There was probably a little too much people in. There was this floating format of this main guest who gets into the debate but to whom we have to give the floor a little more than the others". pointed Alexander Kouchner. "There is a question of substance: there were three people present in the fifteen representative persons who were there to represent citizens, they were very little or too little heard, and they were the ones that best refocused the debate with words. short, true words, it was called You have the floor, we did not really understand who had it, "he concluded.