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The Ciottiste deputy for Hérault Charles Alloncle (left) and the deputy (Horizons) for Calvados Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, respectively rapporteur and president of the commission of inquiry on public broadcasting, at the National Assembly, in Paris, February 2, 2026.

The president of the parliamentary fee of inquiry into public broadcasting, the deputy (Horizons) for Calvados Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, might repeat repeatedly that“a commission of inquiry is not a court, and we, parliamentarians, are not prosecutors”, at the very least one elected official turns a deaf ear. To the nice dismay of 4 of his colleagues who, within the title of this precept, requested the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, in a letter despatched Monday February 2, “to intervene with a call to order” of the rapporteur Charles Alloncle (Hérault, Union of Rights for the Republic) engaged, from their standpoint, in a “witch hunt”.

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“Each listening to, justify Ayda Hadizadeh (Val-d’Oise, Socialist Party), Sophie Taillé-Polian (Val-de-Marne, Génération.s), Erwan Balanant (Finistère, MoDem) and Céline Calvez (Haut-de-Seine, Renaissance), jet[te] the individuals interviewed are ate up social networks, generally pressured to justify themselves unfairly on components particular to their non-public lives and with out a direct or enough relationship with their journalistic actions or the topic of their interventions within the context of public broadcasting. » Already for the primary time, in December 2025, Mme Braun-Pivet had known as the Ciottist deputy to order, asking him to “present restraint in [ses] positions taken, and [ses] public expressions ».

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