The TF1 journalist and Léa Salamé explain, in the columns of “Parisien”, how they intend to approach the Macron-Le Pen debate scheduled for Wednesday, April 20.
It will therefore be a Gilles Bouleau-Léa Salamé duo. A few days before the debate between the two rounds between Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Penthe rhetorical apotheosis of a campaign marked by the absence of direct confrontation between the candidates, the journalist from France 2 and her colleague from TF1 come back in The Parisian on how they intend to prepare, animate and supervise this major event.
In a joint interview, one confesses her stage fright when the other plays the appeasement. “Me, I’m scared, confesses Léa Salamé. There is a monumental democratic expectation, in a strange campaign, without notable debate. To approach it, she explains that she “planned to talk about it with Nathalie Saint-Cricq to find out how she had experienced it (during the debate between the two rounds in 2017) and how she would do it differently, today “.
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More surprisingly, Gilles Bouleau for his part made contact with someone who was on the other side, that of the candidates, during the debate between the two rounds in 2012, the former President of the Republic, Francois Hollande. “With Léa, we come out of fifteen days of complicated political interviews, we know the programs by heart”, he assures before adding: “I spoke with François Hollande to find out how he had prepared. He answered me that the most important thing was to enter the brain of the other. […] Read more
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