The examination of the text in the National Assembly finally pushed – Liberation
The text had been registered on that date for the forceps by Rachida Dati, which absolutely wants to put it on its balance sheet before leaving the Ministry of Culture to launch out of the town hall of Paris. Eventually, According to information from Figarothe government has decided to arbitrate against its disadvantage and to withdraw from the agenda of the National Assembly the examination of the reform of public audiovisual, initially scheduled for Friday. The reason: The 2,000 amendments on the bill on the simplification of economic lifeexamined since this Wednesday, April 9, in the session by the deputies on Wednesday, April 9. The National Assembly will then observe a two -week parliamentary truce from April 14, for a resumption of work in plenary session from April 28. It was difficult to imagine that debates are held on such a short niche for a major reform for public audiovisual.
This is then a new delay for the one who is now known as « cursed reform ». Or the « France Media » holding project intended to oversee France Télévisions, Radio France and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA). A text criticized by the left and which had already experienced several adventures during its examination in cultural affairs committee in recent days. Last week, the debates had notably been interrupted by an incident caused by Rachida Dati: the Minister of Culture had violently taken to task an administrator of the Palais-Bourboncausing a first session suspension on the evening of Tuesday, April 1, then a second the next day, Dati refusing to apologize. This week, the debates had again raged, the left -wing deputies depositing several hundred amendments. To the point that the Commission could not adopt the entire project on Tuesday evening, and it is the initial text that had been transmitted for the next step, in the hemicycle.
Before that, this holding project, born from a senatorial report ten years ago, had been worn for the first time in 2019 by the Minister of Culture then Franck Riester, then highly taken up since the appointment of Rachida Dati on rue de Valois. But this project had once again been interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly in the summer of 2024, then by the censorship of the Barnier government in December.
With this postponement, the timing is more and more complicated. The adoption of the text during this first half -semester 2025 would make the holding company operational on January 1, 2026. A new gap would make the transformation more complicated, according to some observers, who do not see such upheaval of public audiovisual enter into force in the midst of presidential pre -campaign. When could this new examination take place in the National Assembly? No soon, according to a Renaissance deputy cited by Le Figaro :: « In view of the parliamentary traffic jam for the past few weeks, it will probably be very complicated to find him a new place … » The boss of the Communist deputies, Stéphane little, had warned that if this reform « Can’t come this week, she will not come at all before the summer ».
The trade union organizations of Radio France and France Télévisions, which had called on employees to strike This Thursday, April 10 and Friday April 11, decided to maintain their mobilization, at least for this Thursday. « We cannot be dependent on the vagaries of the Assembly calendar, and employees will be on strike from midnight, indicate Release Bertrand Durand, central union delegate of the CGT Radio France. Furthermore, it is not only from the assembly agenda that we demand the withdrawal of this deadly project! ” Maintaining or not a second day of strike on Friday should be discussed this Thursday, he said.
