With journalist Camille Maestracci, Benoît Hamon is at the helm of "Et si…", a series of podcasts on positive solutions.
At the microphone of Europe 1, Wednesday morning, the former socialist candidate for the presidential election defends an editorial choice "consistent" with his political thought.
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His name stands out among the podcast creators we are used to seeing: with freelance journalist Camille Maestracci, Benoît Hamon is in the credits of "Et si…", a series of podcasts focused on "positive" solutions to certain societal problems.
A choice that is surprising, but that the former presidential candidate of 2017 fully assumes, as he explained at the microphone of Europe 1 in
Culture Médias
, Wednesday morning.
"We looked for solutions"
"Today, I think that we not only have new ideas, because it is cream pie to say that, but also to show that there are paths", defends the one who has almost left political life (his mandate as regional councilor for Île-de-France ends next year).
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Having become an actor in the social and solidarity economy, Benoît Hamon explains that he sees a "coherent" link between this series of podcasts and his 2017 campaign: "When Camille Maestracci called me to suggest that I do a podcast on happy ideas, I told myself that what we had done during the presidential election was a bit against the air of the times. Universal income, the tax on robots, endocrine disruptors… We looked for solutions and tried to be one step ahead. "
Hamon in Miliband's footsteps
Why, for her part, did Camille Maestracci call on a public figure to co-host this series which claims to be "committed"?
"The podcast is inspired by an English version called 'Reasons to be Cheerful', with Ed Miliband, former British Labor boss, and journalist Geoff Lloyd," said the author to Philippe Vandel.
"Seeing Ed Miliband's profile, I told myself that Benoît Hamon, who is no longer in politics, like Ed Miliband, has a bit of the same profile."
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At the microphone, the journalist and the socialist talk to each other and "question ideas which lead us to believe that a more sustainable, fairer and more united future is possible".
The subjects, covered in half an hour, reflect this bias: "What if we stopped sitting?" What if everyone went to the shrink? "" What if we only work four days a week? " For each episode, the two animators welcome a guest in order to "change our outlook" and "shake up a little our way of thinking about society".