Presidential: Marine Le Pen assumes to marginalize the journalists of the Quotidien program

Europe 1 with AFP 5:13 p.m., April 12, 2022

The RN candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen assumed on Tuesday to marginalize the journalists of the TV Quotidien program, accused of doing "entertainment" and not "information", on the sidelines of a press conference on institutions and democratic life.

"I have never heard, I believe, any of your colleagues complain about the way they were treated in this presidential campaign, even if it is sometimes quite difficult given the number", assured Marine le Pen, in visit to Vernon (Eure), when she was questioned about the sometimes stormy relationship between her party and the press.

She claimed not to choose the journalists likely to follow her: "I never did that."

Relaunched on the ostracism of which the journalists of the TMC program would more particularly be victims in the follow-up of her campaign, Marine Le Pen affirmed: "There are no journalists at Quotidien (...). This is not It's not a news or journalist show. It's entertaining, sometimes very funny, it's an entertainment show."

Mediapart and Quotidien not accredited for Le Pen

Relations between the RN and the press have sometimes been fraught with tension.

In September 2019, the RN had temporarily withdrawn the accreditation of a journalist from

to cover his summer university in Fréjus (Var), after the daily broadcast of a portrait of the RN mayor of the city.

In Mayotte in December, the

media protested against the National Rally's ban on one of its journalists from continuing to follow Marine Le Pen's campaign on the island.

Journalists from Mediapart, until this campaign, and from the Quotidien program are not always accredited to the candidate's meetings or press conferences.