A 400-page text which “unfortunately misses the point”. If he defends the need for reform, Sébastien Lecornu estimated on Tuesday May 5 that the report by far-right MP Charles Alloncle on public broadcasting constitutes “a missed opportunity”. “The government takes note of the report of the commission of inquiry into public broadcasting. Parliament is in its supervisory role. But controversies do not make public policy,” he wrote on X.
In this report, Charles Alloncle, elected from Eric Ciotti’s UDR party, an ally of the National Rally, makes 69 recommendations which would subject France Télévisions in particular to austerity. It is the result of six months of work by a highly tense parliamentary commission of inquiry.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu affirmed that it was necessary to think about the place of public broadcasting “in the face of global platforms, the fragmentation of uses, disinformation, the concentration of the media”. According to him, “reforms will be necessary” but they must “respond to a vision”.
“Reducing this debate to a caricatured opposition between refusal of any reform and general privatization, as some are calling for, makes no sense,” continued the head of government, noting that the report “does not propose general privatization”.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
