Europe 1 with AFP 4:16 p.m., April 5, 2022

While candidates denounced the absence of Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday evening for the political program "Élysée 2022" on France 2, the president-candidate will make his last media intervention before the first round on Friday on the online channel Brut.

In 2020, his long interview on this media had reached seven million young people.

President-candidate Emmanuel Macron will make his last media intervention before the first round of the presidential election on Friday on the online channel Brut, while other candidates denounced his absence on Tuesday evening for the political

program Elysée 2022

on France 2. candidate president will answer, live Friday at 7 p.m., questions on "the major concerns of youth" which will be relayed by journalists Rémy Buisine and Thomas Snégaroff on all Brut platforms, announced the online media, which has already interviewed the other candidates.

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Seven million young people affected in 2020

On December 6, 2020, Emmanuel Macron had already given a long interview to Brut, which had reached more than seven million young people on social networks, according to the media.

He was questioned there about police violence, racial profiling, secularism, youth aid, glyphosate and his candidacy for a new term.

In addition, the candidate president responded to criticism from Valérie Pécresse, who deemed "scandalous" the absence of Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday evening on France 2 and considered that the public service could not "be complicit" in this "evasion" .

"While finally the French are interested in this campaign, not coming to be questioned by public service journalists seems to me an absolutely unacceptable evasion," added the LR candidate in front of journalists.

Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo also criticized Emmanuel Macron for his refusal "to come to public service, on France televisions" and for wanting to be "replaced by images of his meeting".

"Do you think it's normal, do you think the French can accept that our democracy has deteriorated to this point?", She denounced on Franceinfo.

"I have less time available for the campaign", defends Macron

On a campaign trip to Spézet in Finistère, Emmanuel Macron justified this absence by diary constraints because, he said, "I am a little forced to organize my time. I have less time available for the campaign than my competitors".

"I went to public service several times. I will go to France 2, I reassure you. Either before the first round or between the two rounds", he said, even assuring that he would go "in all the media that (him) offer something".

The Society of Journalists of France 2 strongly regretted Monday the choice of the president-candidate "which it does not understand".

Those around him highlighted "scheduling problems", recalling that Emmanuel Macron has already participated in public service broadcasts.