The cover of the next issue of

Marianne

, which will be on newsstands on Thursday, clearly takes a stand against Marine Le Pen.

This provokes the indignation of the society of the editors of the weekly, which in a press release published Tuesday, said to see there an "unprecedented attack on its independence".

And to affirm that the main shareholder of the weekly, the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, had intervened to modify the front page.

The press release presented the two covers in parallel.

The version originally planned featured the words "anger" on a photo of Emmanuel Macron's eyes and "...or chaos" on Marine Le Pen's eyes.

The final version, which readers will see on shelves on Thursday, does not change the photos, but the title, which has become: “Despite the anger….

avoid chaos.

Press release from the Marianne Editors' Society (SRM) about an intervention by the main shareholder on the front page of the newspaper pic.twitter.com/yEnCUD13ZX

— Marianne's Society of Editors (@SRM_Marianne) April 19, 2022


Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent

By clicking on "

I ACCEPT

", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners

I ACCEPT

And to better remunerate 20 Minutes, do not hesitate to accept all cookies, even for one day only, via our "I accept for today" button in the banner below.

More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.


According to the society of editors of

Marianne

, "the initial content of what was to appear on this front page had been established following two collegial meetings involving the management and all of the editorial staff".

"A clear consensus had emerged to establish a factual distinction between the two candidates without dictating their conduct to our readers," she adds.

Natacha Polony wants to "leave no ambiguity"

In a letter published Wednesday on Twitter, the editorial director, Natacha Polony, believes that the title of the final version "translates the journalistic reading that we make of the political situation in France, developed in the editorial of the log ".

"However, I have decided to listen to all the sensitivities making up the editorial team, while being attentive to the wishes of the CMI group [belonging to Daniel Kretinsky] not to leave any ambiguity as to the position of our weekly", she specifies.

Television

Presidential 2022: "The exceptional nature of the debate between the two rounds has faded a little", says historian Jean Garrigues

Television

Presidential 2022: Audiences, cameras, duration… The history of the debate between the two rounds in figures

  • Media

  • Presidential election 2022

  • Marine Le Pen

  • Emmanuel Macron

  • Hurry