"An intimate ambition" returns with five women politicians and secrets

• A few months before the presidential election, M6 is offering a new issue of

  Une ambition intime

  this Sunday, from 9:05 pm.

• Karine Le Marchand receives Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen, Rachida Dati and Marlène Schiappa for a special episode "women politicians in power".

• "I did not think that we were preventing women from advancing in politics at this point," explains the host who considers her show as "militant".

Installed on a sofa, Karine Le Marchand drinks her cup of tea. "Your mom never knew how to read or write?" Do you mind being compared to your father? Are you very fond of board games? The questions which follow one another are not put to a farmer or a farmer of

but to women politicians. Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen, Rachida Dati and Marlène Schiappa have all agreed to participate in the second season of

, whose one and only number will be broadcast this Sunday on M6.

Preparation for the program began in April when the

contacted the entourage of the personalities interviewed.

The phone calls follow one another until obtaining a "bible of about 150 pages" explained Karine Le Marchand at the press conference organized by the channel.

“Depending on what we are told, we manage to bring out the main features,” adds the facilitator, who invites relatives to intervene through pre-recorded interviews.

Hidalgo's mother, Schiappa's husband, Pécresse's children

Thus, the televiewers will see Nicolas Sarkozy and Christian Jacob speak about Rachida Dati, will discover the husband of Marlène Schiappa, will hear the children of Valérie Pécresse and the mother of Anne Hidalgo. Above all, the public should be surprised to learn that Marine Le Pen lives in a roommate with Ingrid, a childhood friend. “We never argue. There is one who does the shopping, the other who prepares lunch or dinner. Marine takes care of the garden very well, I no longer take care of the kitchen, ”reveals the one who has lived with the candidate for the presidency of the Republic for five years.

About thirty minutes are given to each politician on the show.

The shooting, lasting three to four hours for each meeting, took place in July for three of them, in August for Anne Hidalgo and mid-September for Marlène Schiappa.

At the time, not all of them had yet displayed their ambition for the next April deadline.

“For some, we shot two endings.

We said why they did not show up and why they did show up, ”revealed Karine Le Marchand, saying that they“ had great arguments for both [options] ”.

This trick allowed politicians to keep control of their announcement schedule, like what Nicolas Sarkozy had done during his participation in the show five years ago.

An activist program?

Until about midnight, the testimonies of women politicians will follow one another. We will learn that Valérie Pécresse has a mad passion for cheese, we will walk in the vegetable garden of Marine Le Pen and we will know more about the meeting of the parents of Marlène Schiappa. In addition to Karine Le Marchand's desire to see her guests open the doors of their daily lives to her, the host believes that

has become an activist program during the filming.

"She is militant in the sense that I think we understand that it is complicated," she says. I didn't think that we were preventing women from advancing in politics at this point. “Through their anecdotes, the speakers attest to their difficulties in gaining power and the way in which they must legitimize their place. Anne Hidalgo, for example, confides: “There are people who really have an interest in nothing changing. […] They came to threaten me, there, in this office, physically. "

At M6, the bell is not quite the same.

"This program is not militant, but the hope is simple: these bare words, without make-up or tongue in cheek, will perhaps be able to move things forward", underlines the press kit.

Guillaume Charles, director general of the channel's programs, specifies that “it is not a militant documentary but [that] it has become a bit because what they tell us can sometimes be shocking, surprising and to challenge.

"

"I thought Trotsky and Marx were friends of the family"

Karine Le Marchand affirms it: women politicians talk more easily about their emotions than men, compared to Nicolas Sarkozy, Arnaud Montebourg or Bruno Le Maire, who participated in the first issue in 2016. The program offered this Sunday allows in particular to Marine Le Pen to address the debate between the two rounds of the previous presidential election. “I found her courageous to come back to this subject, to the fact that she was not good, that she took a year to recover. I am not sure that many politicians assume to be bad, ”notes the host.

The sofas installed in the workplace of the guests are not only conducive to confidences but also punchlines. “It's a bit like

, politics,” says Valérie Pécresse. “When I was little, I thought that Trotsky and Marx were friends of the family,” laughs Marlène Schiappa when talking about the very communist speeches of her parents.

For the time being, no other issue of

is planned with all the candidates for the presidential election when the list is final.

Several reasons are mentioned: the preparation time required for such a program and the equity of speaking times supervised by the Superior Audiovisual Council from January.

M6 evokes thinking about another program, in "a much more reportage form", according to the schedules of each and every one.

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