MPs denounce a “witch hunt” throughout the public broadcasting fee | EUROtoday
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”.
“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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