They will not all be there and will not debate.

These are the concessions that TF1 will make on Monday evening for a major political evening in which eight presidential candidates will participate.

In addition to outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, the other candidates present will be Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Valérie Pécresse, Fabien Roussel and Eric Zemmour.

Scheduled at 8:20 p.m., this show should end around 11:00 p.m.

It is entitled

La France face à la guerre

 because the conflict in Ukraine and its consequences on France will be at the center of the questions, explained to AFP the editor-in-chief of the political department of the TF1 group, Adrien Gindre.

The program will take place in three phases during which the candidates will intervene individually, one after the other.

First, a "profession of faith" of one minute each, then individual interviews of about a quarter of an hour.

Finally, the candidates will have in turn a two-minute “right of reply” allowing them to come back to some of the points raised previously.

“There was no unanimity of the candidates”

Monday in Poissy (Yvelines), for his first outing as a candidate, Emmanuel Macron confirmed that he "would not debate with the other candidates before the first round".

"No sitting president who is standing for re-election has done so," he said.

According to Adrien Gindre, his refusal to participate in a debate is not the only element that motivated the choice of Monday's format.

"There was no unanimity among the candidates" and "not all of them agreed on the advisability of having a debate, on the number of participants, on the right configuration", he added. he rocks.

The war in Ukraine and other themes

Even if the war in Ukraine will be at the center of the questions, other subjects may be discussed.

Ukraine, "is the gateway that will allow us to pull the thread on" other themes, so that the candidates can present "the reforms, the changes which seem to them necessary to prepare our country for the world as it changes," said Adrien Gindre.

"We have analyzed, with the candidates, that this presidential campaign is taking place in an unprecedented international context, and that we cannot bring them together on a set by ignoring it", he concluded to justify the choice of title and main theme of the show.

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