Paris (France) (AFP) – Eight candidates for the Élysée will be questioned in turn on Thursday on public services, from education to security, on the occasion of a special day on franceinfo radio, television and digital, their leaders announced to AFP on Tuesday.
Published on: 11/10/2026 - 2:22 p.m.
These interviews, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., will take place in public at studio 104 of the Maison de la radio and will be broadcast partly live: each hour, twenty minutes will be broadcast on all franceinfo channels, and the following twenty minutes only on digital (franceinfo.fr, YouTube and social networks).
The announced candidates, interviewed by pairs of Franceinfo radio and Franceinfo TV journalists, are Gabriel Attal, Raphaël Glucksmann, Edouard Philippe, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Fabien Roussel, Marine Tondelier, Bruno Retailleau and Eric Zemmour. Marine Le Pen and David Lisnard declined the invitation, indicates franceinfo.
“If we, a public service, do not ask the question of public services, we are not sure that other media will give priority to this question,” explained to AFP the director of franceinfo radio Agnès Vahramian, also deputy editorial director for information at Radio France.
“We will also talk about access to local public services in rural areas,” adds Philippe Corbé, the information director of France Télévisions, on which franceinfo tv depends.
“And we told the candidates: there are no taboos, the question of public broadcasting does not bother us,” adds Agnès Vahramian.
Public broadcasting itself is a theme of the presidential campaign, the National Rally having promised to privatize it by increasing criticism of its cost and supposed biases in favor of the left within the branches of Radio France and France Télévisions.
With this special operation, called “Our public services” and which brings together the two public broadcasting entities, “we are gaining power,” says Agnès Vahramian.
Since the start of the school year, a political interview show, "Franc-jeu", hosted on Sundays by Benjamin Duhamel, has already been co-broadcast on France 2 and France Inter, and the podcast "On/Off", brings together the heads of the political services of franceinfo, France Inter and France Télévisions.
"There are investigations by the investigation unit of Radio France, which have become subjects in +l'Oeil du 20 Heures+", one of the JT's investigative formats, also cites Philippe Corbé.
“It is not a question of creating a common antenna”, but “of circulating our content” so that “they are duplicated”, say those responsible.
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